Harvey Keitel Becomes the Newest Focker
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the newest edition to the Focker franchise is stage and screen vet Harvey Keitel.
The movie will feature the return of everyone's Focker favorites, including Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson. Additions to this newest installment also include Laura Dern, Jessica Alba will additionally be appearing in the film. The movie will be directed by Paul Weitz under the Working Title "Little Fockers" for Universal and Tribeca Productions.
In the film, Keitel will play a contractor employed by Stiller's Gaylord Focker.
The film is produced by Jane Rosenthal and Jay Roach and is overseen by Universal's Tracy Falco and Maradith Frenkel. It features a screenplay by John Hamburg (rewritten from Larry Stuckey's original script). Already in production, the film is set for release sometime in the summer of 2010.
Broadway vet Harvy Keitel has appeared on Broadway in Death of a Salesman and Hurlyburly. Most recently, starred on the New York Stage in the title role of Jerry Springer -- The Opera at Carnegie Hall. His film credits include Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Jane Campion's The Piano, Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, and James Mangold's Cop Land. Keitel also starred in Red Dragon as FBI agent Jack Crawford.
