Robin Williams is to star in the comedy
Man of the Year for director Barry Levinson, according to the Variety.
Williams will play a Jon Stewart-like host of a latenight political talkshow who runs for president to make noise on the campaign trail. The stunt backfires after a series of unusual circumstances leads him to victory.
Movie will shoot in Toronto, with exteriors in Maryland and D.C. and will begin production late in the fall.