Kevin Costner is in talks to play the male equivalent of Mrs. Robinson in the Warner Bros. comedy that advances the storyline of ’60s pic The Graduate. Meanwhile Jennifer Aniston is already set to play the young woman seduced by Costner’s character. Shirley MacLaine will play her grandmother, the woman who inspired the character immortalized by Anne Bancroft.
The story of the film concerns a young woman who puts her marriage plans on the shelf so she can return home to Pasadena and unravel family secrets. She has discovered that The Graduate was probably based on her family, her grandmother was Mrs. Robinson and she doesn’t know her real father.
