Bobby Cannavale, Robert De Niro join new Tony Goldwyn film

Bobby Cannavale and Robert De Niro have signed on for the comedy drama Inappropriate Conduct directed by Scandal alum Tony Goldwyn. The film was influenced by screenwriter Tony Spiridakis’s relationship with his son, who is neurodiverse.

For each Wide variety, Cannavale will star as Max Brandel, a late-night comedy author who eschews his successful tv profession to pursue stand-up. Right after the dissolution of his relationship, he moves in with his father Stan (De Niro), “A gifted but eccentric chef turned doorman.” The actors final appeared on display screen collectively in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.

When Max and his ex-spouse disagree on how to offer with their 9-calendar year-aged son Ezra’s Asperger’s, “Brandel decides the alternative is to kidnap Ezra and consider him on a trek throughout the nation.” Probably not the ideal custody solution, but the journey claims to be “honest, hilarious and heart-warming.”

Goldwyn and Spiridakis are set to develop alongside Howard Rosenman and Lois Robbins. In a assertion, they said: “The development of this movie has been a deeply particular journey. We are so proud to provide Tony’s hilarious and emotional screenplay to lifetime and have embarked on a search for a fantastic youthful actor on the Autism spectrum to perform Ezra.”

David Garrett of distributor Mister Smith Leisure added: “This is a really poignant and joyous tale penned by anyone whose people give neurodiversity both company and a voice–and a incredibly funny one at that.”

The story presumably struck a chord with De Niro as perfectly, as he is also a mum or dad of a boy or girl with autism. Regretably his particular interest in autism has in the previous led him down the anti-vaccination rabbit hole. (Who can fail to remember his notorious group-up with Robert F. Kennedy, like an anti-vaxx Avengers.) In this circumstance, we hope the Inappropriate Behavior referenced in the title doesn’t include any vaccination conspiracy theories.