EDWARD BURNS WRITES ABOUT MEN AND WEDDINGS

Director, writer and star Edward Burns explores what happens to a group of childhood friends when spouses and children come into the picture in The Groomsmen. The Queens New York native who is now experiencing both fatherhood and marriage with model Christy Turlington looks at the dynamics of friendship and marriage the day before the big day. Ed says he was inspired to write the script by his own personal wedding planning.

They say women want to get married and men have to be dragged down the aisle kicking and screaming. Ed agrees with the reluctance most men have with tying the knot.<

“I originally wrote it four years ago as kind of a broad comedy, kind of like Meet The Parents more slapsticky thing. And I wasn’t happy with the script so I just put it in the drawer. Then years later after I got married and went through all the stuff that goes with planning the wedding my wife actually suggested I should take the script out and take a look at it again and try and write a more realistic version of what happens before a wedding.”

The Groomsmen opens Friday July 14

“I wasn’t so interested in the things that groomsmen have to do as the wedding day approaches but I was definitely interested in writing a story about men in their mid thirties reaching that age when they should be behaving like men yet they can’t let go of their adolescent selves.”