Michael Keaton Joins The Cast Of Dreamworks ‘Need For Speed’ Adaptation

Dreamworks Need For Speed adaptation has added another big name to it’s cast. Oddly enough, it’s an actor who has another movie, MGM’s Robocop, coming out the same day. Michael Keaton has signed on to join the cast of Scott Waugh’s of the Electronic Arts streetracing game of the same name. Keaton will play a “reclusive and eccentric host of an underground supercar race where he invites the best drivers from around the world.”

 
The film, which stars Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Dominic Cooper (Captain America: The First Avenger) centers on “a local street racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After his stint in the joint, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer’s head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.”

 
Need For Speed is set to hit theaters February 7, 2014.

Source: THR