Tony Winner Frank Langella to Star in Road Trip Drama YOUTH IN OREGON

Deadline reports that Frank Langella has signed on to star in an upcoming road trip drama titled YOUTH IN OREGON. The film will be based on a true story about "a cantankerous old man being driven by his son-in-law cross-country to Oregon with the intention of being euthanized in the state where physician-assisted suicide is legal."

Production is scheduled to get underway this June in update New York, which will stand in as the setting for the Pacific Northwest state.

Langella earned one of his three Tony Awards for his performance as Richard Nixon in the acclaimed production Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse, West End and Broadway). He was also the recipient of an Olivier Award nomination and an Oscar nomination for the same role in the film version. His additional Tonys were for roles in Seascape and Fortune's Fool, as well as three more nominations for Man and Boy, Dracula and Match. His over four decades on Broadway and close to two dozen productions also include, among others, The Father, Present Laughter, A Man for all Seasons and Amadeus.

In 2013/2014 Mr Langella will star in six films including Grace of Monaco opposite Nicole Kidman, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight opposite Christopher Plummer, directed by Stephen Frears, and Draft Day opposite Kevin Costner. He will soon be seen in the independent film The Driftless Area in Vancouver, and co-stars in the upcoming 5 TO 7, which opened at New York's Tribeca

Among his 65 films, recent screen credits include the critically acclaimed Robot and Frank, Starting Out In The Evening, Good Night and Good Luck, Dave and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

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