Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema continue to fill out of the cast of the upcoming feature adaptation DC/Vertigo mob drama The Kitchen, with Deadline reporting that Common (Suicide Squad) and James Badge Dale (Only the Brave) have become the latest additions to the project along with Jeremy Bobb (Godless) and Myk Watford (No Country for Old Men).
The Kitchen takes place in 1970s New York and revolves around three mob wives who take over their husbands’ criminal enterprise in Hell’s Kitchen when the men are busted by the FBI. Melissa McCarthy (Ghostbusters), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) are set to play the three wives, while the cast also includes Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Margo Martindale (The Americans), Bill Camp (Red Sparrow), Brian D’Arcy James (13 Reasons Why).
Common will play FBI agent Gary Silvers, with Dale and Bobb as mob bosses Kevin O’Carroll and Rob Walsh (husbands to Haddish and Moss’ characters respectively), and Watford as gangster Little Jackie.
The Kitchen will mark the directorial debut of Andrea Berloff, screenwriter on Straight Outta Compton, and is set to begin production this May ahead of a release on September 20th, 2019.
