Richard Linklater is in talks with Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne about joining the cast of his upcoming movie.
The movie would be a follow up to the 1973 Jack Nicholson-Randy Quaid dramedy The Last Detail, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Last Detail is based on the novel of the same name by Darryl Ponicsan. He wrote a sequel, Last Flag Flying, in 2005, which will serve as the basis for this movie.
The Last Detail was about two men in the Navy (Nicholson and Otis Young) who are ordered to take a young man (Quaid) to prison, but show him something on the way. The sequel follows the two Navy men as they reunite with the criminal who needs help getting his son's body from Iraq.
Linklater tried getting the project going in 2006 with the original cast members, but nothing ever came of it. Morgan Freeman would've taken Otis Young's role as Young died in 2001.
According to Variety, Amazon Studios will potentially be behind the film. The studio recently put out Café Society, Elvis & Nixon, and The Neon Demon. Linklater's last film, the college baseball dramedy Everybody Wants Some, was released in April. In 2014, the director released Boyhood, a movie that followed the same cast for 12 years and earned raves from critics. The film was nominated for six Oscars, and won Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette.