Disney To "Swing" With Costner

Touchstone Pictures will co-finance and domestically distribute the Kevin Costner political comedy "Swing Vote".

The story follows Bud Johnson (Costner), a working-class single father who is thrust onto the world stage after the presidential election comes down to his single vote.

Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez, Judge Reinhold, Mare Winningham, Richard Petty, Willie Nelson and Madeline Carroll also star.

The film is currently in production in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joshua Michael Stern is directing from a script that he penned with Jason Richman.