Steve Martin will reportedly star in 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'
Actor Steve Martin will reportedly star in the movie adaptation of Ben Fountain鈥檚 novel 鈥淏illy Lynn鈥檚 Long Halftime Walk.鈥澛�
According to , Martin will appear in the movie but his role was not mentioned. The film is being directed by Ang Lee of 鈥淟ife of Pi鈥� and will also star Garrett Hedlund of 鈥淯nbroken鈥� and actor Joe Alwyn.聽
鈥淏illy鈥� was published in 2012 and tells the story of member of the military Billy and the others in his squad, who fought in Iraq. After a firefight in which they were involved aired on TV, they became celebrities and are brought back for the Thanksgiving Day football game, where they encounter everyone from regular Americans who want to share their thoughts on the war to a Hollywood producer who wants to make a movie about them. Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp noted in her review that the book is 鈥渋nspiring comparisons with 'Catch-22,' and with good reason. Fountain delivers an absurdist portrait of the war and modern society painted with brush strokes laid as precisely and as viciously as a whip. His darkly comic caricature resonates.鈥�
鈥淏illy鈥� was a finalist for the National Book Award in the fiction category and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Fountain is also behind the book 鈥淏rief Encounters with Che Guevera.鈥澛�
Martin has recently acted in such films as the 2011 movie 鈥淭he Big Year,鈥� 2009鈥檚 鈥淚t鈥檚 Complicated,鈥� and the 2008 film 鈥淏aby Mama.鈥� He co-hosted the Oscars with 鈥淐omplicated鈥� actor Alec Baldwin. Some of his most famous movies include 鈥淭he Jerk,鈥� 鈥淔ather of the Bride,鈥� and 鈥淧lanes, Trains & Automobiles.鈥澛�
Hedlund also starred in the films 鈥淚nside Llewyn Davis鈥� and 鈥淥n the Road鈥� as well as the movie 鈥淭RON: Legacy.鈥澛�
Lee won an Academy Award for Best Director for his work on the film 鈥淏rokeback Mountain鈥� and won the prize again for 鈥淧i.鈥�
