Sam Rockwell and Kumail Nanjiani have joined the cast of the upcoming dark comedy from Gary Fleder, ‘A Guy Walks into a Bar.’ The project has secured an Interim Agreement from SAG-AFTRA.
The movie follows a mild-mannered new father (Nanjiani) as he befriends a charismatic yet mysterious man (Rockwell) at a bar, and soon suspects him of concealing a troubling secret.
Scott Rosenberg, who has previously worked on movies such as Jumanji: The Next Level and Venom, has written the screenplay for this film. The movie is being produced by Gary Fleder, Scott Rosenberg and Sam Rockwell, along with Mark Fasano from Nickel City Pictures, Nadine de Barros from Fortitude International, and Jina Panebianco from Caliwood Pictures. Kumail Nanjiani will be serving as an executive producer on the project, alongside Erica Steinberg and Nickel City’s Matthew Goldberg. The film will also have R. Wesley Sierk, III, John D. Straley and Joseph Panebianco as executive producers.
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Rockwell will next be seen as part of the A-list ensemble of Matthew Vaughn’s Apple spy feature ‘Argylle.’
Nanjiani is currently in post on the next ‘Ghostbusters’ movie. He is also been set to star opposite Mandy Moore in Screen Gems, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s ‘Thread: An Insidious Tale,’ a new film in the Insidious horror universe.
