Zack Pearlman will soon be asking Why Him? The Mulaney actor has been cast in the Fox feature alongside James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Zoey Deutch, Keegan-Michael Key and Megan Mullally. john Hamburg, who co-wrote the script with Ian Helfer, is helming the project which centers on a Midwestern dad, Cranston, who travels with his family to visit his daughter, Deutch, at college, where he finds himself involved in a battle for her affections with her new, brash tech-billionaire boyfriend, Franco. Pearlman has appeared on Key and Peele and Workaholics, and could recently be seen in Nancy Meyer's The Intern.