Forest Whitaker to Star in Family Wedding Picture

Forest Whitaker will join America Ferrera ("Ugly Betty") and Carlos Mencia (Comedy Central) in an untitled family wedding project for Fox Searchlight. Rick Famuyiwa ("Brown Sugar") will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote.

Described by Variety as a clash-of-cultures comedy, the story centers on two overbearing fathers (Whitaker, Mencia) who must put aside their differences to plan the wedding of their son and daughter (Ferrera) in less than two weeks.

Filming begins next month in Los Angeles.

Whitaker, who is filming the Sylvester Stallone-directed action flick "The Expendables," has six films in the can, including "The Repossession Mambo" and "Where the Wild Things Are."