Kevin Bacon and Jonathan Rhys Meyers team up for new comedy

Hunky duo Kevin Bacon and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are teaming up for a fishy new comedy.

The pair will star in Whole Lotta Sole, which is set to film in Belfast, Ireland, in 2010.

The movie finds Rhys Meyers playing a thief whose attempt to plunder a fish market leads him to take Bacon’s character hostage.

Rhys Meyers has to stay one step ahead of both the police and a local gangster.

Jay Russell has also signed on to direct a script written by Terry George, who wrote Hotel Rwanda.

Russell said: “This is a great comedy project, not like Terry’s usual political fare.

“It’s very exciting to have one of the best young actors today, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, teamed up with one of the greats, Kevin Bacon.”

British stars Sophie Okonedo and James Nesbitt, who co-starred alongside Rhys Meyers in Match Point, will co-star.