Kid Cudi To Star in Racing Film "Need For Speed"

Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi has landed another acting gig in DreamWorks' new racing action flick "Need For Speed" alongside "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul. Let the G.O.O.D. times roll.

THR reports:

Also joining the adaptation of the Electronic Arts video game are Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek and Harrison Gilbertson.

Dominic Cooper and Imogen Poots are already on board the production, which has been dated for release Feb. 7, 2014. Scott Waugh, one half of the Act of Valor helming team, is directing.

The company has said it’s aiming for the tone of the car-culture films of the 1970s. The story sees Paul play a local street racer who, after being framed for the death of a friend, joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge.

Cudi will play a member of the racer’s crew.

Mescudi, a record producer and singer-songwriter who has worked with Kanye West and David Guetta, made his acting debut on HBO’s "How to Make It in America" and recently wrapped "Two Night Stand," an indie romantic comedy produced by Beau Flynn and Ruben Fleischer.