Cinematical.com reports that Greg Kinnear recently landed the role of
Robert Kearns in a new biopic entitled "Flash of Genius". Kearns, you probably won't remember, is the inventor of that handy doodad the windshield wiper. Apparantly the auto industry swiped his idea(what?! I find that hard to believe.) and then everybody sued one another for many years until Robert ended up in a sea of money. Lauren Graham will play his embittered wife.
Greg Kinnear is a likable and therefore he will knock this one out of the park. However, I am a bit scared for the titular moment when he actually has a flash of genius and realizes "hey! these wipers can just move side to side and sometimes spit out fluid or something! wow!" Flux capacitor moments tend to be cheesy.
"Flash of Genius" just started shooting in Toronto. Go Canada!