Justin Timberlake Travels "The Open Road"

Justin Timberlake is going full-speed ahead on his acting career, starring in a new film called The Open Road.

According to Variety, the 27-year-old Sexyback singer will play a young man trying to reconnect with his father (Jeff Bridges), a legendary athlete, as he struggles to get him home to his ailing mother’s bedside (Mary Steenburgen).

Kate Mara (Brokeback Mountain, We Are Marshall) will play Justin‘s girlfriend.

Production for The Open Road begins this month in Louisiana.