At the New York junket for his new movie 'The Spiderwick Chronicles', director Mark Waters revealed the cast of his upcoming romantic comedy 'The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'.
The cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Breckin Meyer, and Waters revealed that Michael Douglas is set to join the line-up.
Speaking about the 'Wall Street' actor's role in the film to Comingsoon.net Waters said: "(He'll be playing) the Marley character, the old ghost who's dead, Uncle Wayne. He's a '70s playboy...and he wears Bob Evans shades."
McConaughey replaced Ben Affleck, who was originally lined up to play the lead role.
Waters told Comingsoon.net what he thought that McConaughey brought to the table: "There's something great about Matthew. He has an aspect of him that he can get away with murder with women."
He continued: "He's the kind of guy where women are apologising to him when he breaks up with them, because he's so charming. It's always been such a delicious concept of taking a Christmas Carol and making a romantic comedy out of it."
In the film, McConaughey plays a womaniser who attends the wedding of his younger brother (Breckin Meyer) and bride (Lacey Chabert).
There, he's haunted by several old flames, including the bride's best friend (Jennifer Garner).
