Variety reports that Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes and John C. Reilly are set to star in The Extra Man, a comedy that will begin filming in New York in February.  

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini of American Splendor will direct.

The Extra Man comes from a novel by Jonathan Ames, which Pulcini and Springer Berman wrote the script with the author. The last project the two directors co-directed was The Nanny Diaries.

Kline plays a failed playwright who works as an escort for rich widows on the Upper East Side. He develops a mentor-student relationship with a troubled aspiring playwright (Dano).