If anyone ever actually funds and erects the Hall of Awesome that I've been petitioning for the last 20 years, Michael Caine would be definitely be amongst the first inductees. Appearing in over 100 films in the course of his career, the guy has done everything from badass action to hilarious comedy. The man has even been responsible for organizing Batman's life in two movies, with a third one coming. It's not exactly a stretch to believe that young French women would want to hang out with him.

Variety reports that Michael Caine has signed on to star in Mr. Morgan's Last Love. Based on the novel La Douceur Assassine by Francoise Dorner, Caine will play a widowed, retired American philosophy professor who develops a relationship with a much younger woman.The film will be directed by Sandra Nettelbeck and is described as a "dramedy." Shooting will commence in Paris and Cologne, France in August after Caine wraps shooting on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.

This is exactly what I love about Michael Caine. The guy will go from acting in one of the biggest, most epic superhero films of all time to make a comedy about a May-December friendship in Paris. Pure awesome.