Sam Mendes starts working on comedy

Director Sam Mendes, who also made ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Jarhead,’ is starting production on his new romantic comedy in Connecticut this week. The Universal project just added Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara (photoshopped above) to the cast and is about a family trying to find the right place to start a family.

Other than the new cast members above, the movie will star John Krasinski (’The Office’) and Maya Rudolph (’Saturday Night Live’). No release date or year is currently set.