Arkin Manages The "Grudge Match"

Alan Arkin is in talks to join the comedy "Grudge Match" says Variety.

The story follows two retired boxers (Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro) who return to the ring for a final grudge match.

Arkin will play the former trainer to Stallone's character with the latter rescuing the former from a nursing home.

Comedian Kevin Hart is set to play a fight promoter. Kim Basinger will play "the woman caught in the middle" of the 2 men

"Entourage" creator Doug Ellin wrote the latest draft of the script from a screenplay by Tim Kelleher by which Peter Segal's calling action

Mark Steven Johnson, Bill Gerber and Carrie Gillogly will produce the film

Production hopes to begin early next year in Louisiana.