Sherwood Kiraly’ novel Capacity is set to become a feature film with the author writing the screenplay. The film will star Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen and Alan Alda, according to Variety:

Broderick will play the lead role, a man who suffers memory loss after getting hit on the head. He then takes a trip with his Alzheimer’s-addled uncle (Alda) and his high school sweetheart (Madsen) to a memorabilia show as the group concocts a scheme to sell a scarce baseball card.
Steppenwolf Films, the nascent film-production arm of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company, is also associated with the project, along with Benedek Films and Hart-Lunsford Pictures.



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Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer and Daniela Taplin Lundberg are producing via Plum, while Tim Evans will produce via Steppenwolf.
Plum’s Pam Hirsch, as well as Ed Hart and Bruce Lunsford of Hart-Lunsford, will exec produce. Joy Goodwin will co-produce.

The shooting will begin soon in Chicago and New York. We’re not so sure that there’s anything that funny about Alzheimer’s, but then again we haven’t read the novel. Sounds like Memento meets Little Miss Sunshine.



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