Five Stand to Join NEVER WAS

Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte and Alan Cumming are in negotiations to star in the indie drama Never Was, which will mark the directorial debut of writer Joshua Michael Stern, the feature follows a Yale graduate (Eckhart) who gets a job at the mental institution where his novelist father (Nolte) spent the last years of his life. Once there, he meets a schizophrenic man (McKellen) who proves a mysterious link to his father’s material. Murphy plays a reporter. Heading for a September shoot in Vancouver, the film is being financed by Senator International and produced by Greg Shapiro (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) of Kingsgate Films, which he runs with Nolte.

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