Robert De Niro is in talks to join the cast of Dimension’s “The War With Grandpa,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Tim Hill is set to direct the adaptation of Robert Kimmel Smith’s novel, which follows a young boy who loves his grandpa. But when his grandfather’s wife dies, he has to move in with his grandson and takes his room — much to the youngster’s dismay, who plots a series of pranks to drive him out.
The book first published in 1984.
De Niro will next star in The Weinstein Company’s “Hands of Stone,” which is looking at an Aug.