EXCLUSIVE: Ed Helms ( The Office ), Ben Foster ( Hell or High Water ), Laurence Leboeuf ( Transplant ) and Dan Bakkedahl ( Veep ) have joined the cast of The Stunt Driver , the Jay Baruchel comedy from writer-director Michael Dowse ( Stuber ) that we scooped last November.

Currently in production, the film has Helms playing Dick Keller, a brilliant car engineer brought on to design a rocket-powered vehicle for what may be the most dangerous stunt in history. Foster takes on the role of the iconic daredevil, Evel Knievel, with Leboeuf as Gloria, the loyal girlfriend of Baruchel’s Ken Carter, and Bakkedahl as Carter’s manager.

The film is based on the true story of Montrealer Carter, the “Mad Canadian” stunt driver who tried to jump the Saint Lawrence River in a rock

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