THR is reporting that Hank Azaria (The Smurfs, Love and Other Drugs, Year One) Chris North (Sex and the City, Mr. 3000, The Glass House), Bobby Cannavale (Win Win, The Station Agent, Fast Food Nation), and Robert Patrick (Flags of Our Fathers, Copland, Firewall) have all been cast in Lovelace.
Lovelace is one of the current in development biopic's on Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace. After her starring role in the classic adult film, she went on to become the world's first erotic superstar, before developing a giant drug problem, and then becoming a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement.
Amanda Seyfried (In Time, Chloe) is set to star as Lovelace and Peter Sarsgaard (An Education, Green Lantern) will play her husband/manager Chuck Traynor. Sharon Stone (Bobby, Casino) has also been cast to play Linda's mother.
Azaria is set to play Jerry Damiano, the director of Deep Throat, Cannavale and North will play the roles of the film's financiers, Butchie Periano and Anthony Romano and Patrick will play Lovelace's father, John.
Just a few weeks ago FOG reported that both Juno Temple (Dirty Girl, Greenberg) and Wes Bentley (Ghostrider, American Beauty) were also cast in the film, with the former landing the role of Lovelace's best friend and Bentley playing Lovelace's second husband, Larry Marchiano.
The script was written by Andy Bellin (Trust) and will be directed by Ron Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Howl).
The other Linda Lovelace biopic in the works is Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, which will be based on the novel Ordeal: An Autobiography by Linda Lovelace with Mike McGrady. Matthew Wilder is making his directing debut and Malin Ackerman (Watchmen, Couples Retreat) has been cast in the title role, along with Matt Dillon (Armored, Drugstore Cowboy) playing Traynor.
Production on Lovelace was set to begin today.
