Robert De Niro will compete for laughs with Michael Douglas in CBS Films' new comedy "Last Vegas," the studio said Thursday.
De Niro will play the reserved Paddy Connelly, who reluctantly agrees to fly to Sin City at the request of his friends. Douglas will play Billy Gerson, a lifelong bachelor, who has finally decided to take the plunge into marriage.
The famously intense De Niro may have made a name for himself in searing classics like "The Deer Hunter" and "Raging Bull," but he has increasingly been showing off his lighter side in comedies like "Meet the Parents." He was most recently seen playing a failed author in the drama "Being Flynn."