Kaufman also wrote the screenplay, and will act as producer along with Spike Jonze. Filming is set to begin in the spring in New York.
Hoffman will play a theatre director who ambitiously attempts to put on a play by creating a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse. Catherine Keener is set to play his first wife, Michelle Williams will play his second wife. Samantha Morton will appear as his sometime lover, and Swinton will portray Keener’s best friend and the dubious mentor to the daughter of Hoffman and Keener’s characters.
Charlie Kaufman is best known for writing the screenplays for Adaptation and Being John Malkovich.