Variety is reporting that Christopher Walken and Alessandro Nivola have signed on for Five Dollars a Day, a road movie to be directed by Nigel Cole (A Lot Like Love) which pits a con artist against his more conservative son. Walken will play a grifter-drifter who proudly lives like a king on the titular meager per diem, and Nivola his offspring, who has recently been paroled from prison after serving time for one of his father's crimes. I want to go on record right now: I like this pairing. Walken is like one of those exotically flavored Jelly Belly jellybeans — the shape and consistency remains the same, but you never quite know what you're going to get — while the underrated Nivola (Laurel Canyon, Face/Off) is crafty and adaptable; I look forward to seeing him have a go at swallowed exasperation.