So far, despite bestriding the sitcom world like a balding, bespectacled, enraged colossus with his genius show Curb Your Enthusiasm (not to mention Seinfeld), Larry David hasn’t really seemed interested in carving out a movie career.
There was brief talk that he might be cast as the Vulture in Spider-Man 3, but that came to naught. Now, though, EW is saying that the 60 year-old comedian will play the lead in Woody Allen’s as yet untitled spring project, set to film in New York in the next couple of months.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but David will star alongside Evan Rachel Wood, with more cast to come, we’re sure.
The film will mark Allen’s return to home soil after a run of pictures set in Europe, but we’re more excited about the comedic possibilities of a match-up between Allen and David’s comedic sensibilities. Now, will David be playing a variation on Allen – as so many Allen leads have done in the past, from Kenneth Branagh to John Cusack – or an extension of his hubristic Curb persona, or something else entirely?
Either way, it promises to be a neuroses convention worth attending.