Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them, and then there's perhaps the greatest man of all -- Robert Kearns -- who invented the intermittent windshield wiper. It's the kind of greatness that's now destined for the big screen, revealed Lauren Graham, who told MTV News that she's set to star in Kearns' life story alongside Oscar-nominee Greg Kinnear.
"It's going to be a great movie for [Greg]," Graham declared.
The flick, which is tentatively titled "Flash of Genius" centers on Kearns' David vs. Goliath fight against American automakers over the use of his innovative design, Graham said.
"He felt his patent was infringed and he spent his life, not just trying to get money, but also fighting for the rights of inventors and patent rights," Graham divulged of the film's plot. "It is a small, beautiful story of this one man taking on these big companies." The inventor won multi-million dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler in 1978 and 1982. He died in 2005 at the age of 77.
While she was psyched for the film, and for Greg, Graham was downright melancholy when asked about the character she's set to play. "I'm just playing people's wives really," Graham said, fresh from playing Steve Carell's wife in "Evan Almighty" "I'm just doing the world tour. The Wife World Tour."
Sounds kinda clever. Could "Flash of Genius" be next year's "Little Miss Sunshine"? Leave your comments below.
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