Bryan Cranston to Join James Franco in New Comedy WHY HIM?

Variety reports that Tony Winner Bryan Cranston will star opposite James Franco in the upcoming comedy WHY HIM? from 21 Laps and 20th Century Fox. John Hamburg will helm the project from a script he co-wrote along with Ian Helfer.

The comedy takes place over the holidays, "when a Midwestern dad travels with his family to visit his daughter at college, and soon finds himself in a battle for her affections with her brash new tech billionaire boyfriend."

Franco will direct Cranston in the upcoming film "In Dubious Battle." Franco will also co-star. Cranston will next be seen on the big screen in "Trumbo" hitting theaters on Nov. 6 following its September premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. He will also lend his voice to DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda 3."

Cranston won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for All the Way. This was his first Tony nomination. Cranston began his acting career in local and regional theatres, getting his start at the Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley. He is best known for portraying Walter White in BREAKING BAD from 2008 to 2013, and Hal in Malcolm in the Middle from 2000 to 2006. He won four Emmy Awards and was nominated for five more.

Bryan Cranston won the 2014 Golden Globe® and three consecutive Emmy® Awards for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" for his portrayal of Walter White on AMC's Breaking Bad. Cranston holds the honor of being the first actor in a cable series, and the second lead actor in the history of the Emmy® Awards to receive three consecutive wins. His performance has also earned him a fourth Emmy® nomination this year, a Television Critics Association award, three Golden Globe nominations and a Screen Actors Guild award.

On the big screen, Cranston won a second Screen Actors Guild award this year for his co-starring role in the 2012 Oscar-winning Best Picture, Argo, essaying the role of CIA operative Jack O'Donnell opposite star-director Ben Affleck.

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