Taylor Kinney Has A Busy Summer Ahead

Chicago Fire's Taylor Kinney gets two movie roles that he will shoot during the summer hiatus from his TV drama says THR.

 The first is the comedy "Rock the Kasbah".

The story follows Bill Murray as a burned out music manager who goes to Afghanistan on the USO tour with his last remaining client. When he finds himself abandoned, penniless and without his passport, he discovers a young girl with an extraordinary voice, who stows away with him back to Kabul to compete on the popular television show, the Afghan Star.

Bruce Willis Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride, and Kate Hudson also star.

Hawaii Five-0 star Scott Caan replaces  Shia Labeouf as one part of a military duo opposite McBride

Barry Levinson will call action using a script from Mitch Glazer, who also wrote Murray's 1988 underrated holiday comedy Scrooged and the 1998 adaptation of Great Expectations.

Bill Block, Steve Bing and Jacob Pechenik will produce the film. Brian Grazer and Tom Freston serve as executive producers.

Kinney is also starring in the indie political thriller "Food"

The script co-written by Zoe Lister Jones and Daryl Wein  from which Wein is directing, “is set in the world of Genetically Modified Organisms and centers on a single mother who goes on a journey to uncover the cause of her son’s mysterious illness. Intertwined with her arc are the stories of a CEO grappling with his son’s autism, an organic farmer in danger of losing his farm, and two scientists on the brink of a major discovery.”

Lister Jones Kunal Nayyar, Victor Garber, Danny Glover, Griffin Dunne, Anthony Edwards and Beth Grant also star.

Kinney will shoot both films concurrently.