Increasingly giving Jeremy Renner competition for Hollywood’s favorite “actor we just realized is awesome,” Bryan Cranston has reportedly joined the cast of Adam Shankman’s Rock Of Ages, capping off a recent round of everything’s-coming-up-Cranston that saw the Breaking Bad star joining the Total Recall remake and the animated Batman: Year One in addition to previously announced roles in John Carter Of Mars, Tom Hanks’ Larry Crowne, George Lucas’ Red Tail, Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive. The all-star effort will find Cranston playing the mayor of Los Angeles who’s married to Catherine Zeta-Jones’ “Anita Bryant-like advocate who wants to ban rock and roll”—two characters that were created specifically for the movie, which is itself based on a Broadway show created specifically to capitalize on the growing nostalgia for hair metal, so clearly there’s room for some poetic license here. No word yet on whether Cranston will be expected to sing or dance alongside the other actors who have also been roped into the ’80s jukebox musical (like Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, Julianne Hough, and Alec Baldwin), but he’s already proven that he’s at least adept at making the word “Cranston” sound melodious.
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