Jane Curtin has joined the cast of "Little Five," an upcoming period film produced by Anne Hathaway's Somewhere Pictures alongside Pigasus Pictures. The former Saturday Night Live star will play Dean Weston, a formidable university leader who mentors and challenges a group of young female cyclists striving to break into a male-dominated collegiate sport. The casting adds a notable veteran name to a film already generating buzz for its true-story inspiration and community involvement during filming.

Set in the early 1980s at Indiana University, the film draws on the real history of the Little 500 bicycle race and follows four young women forming the university's first women's team to compete in the event. Curtin joins previously announced cast members Rain Spencer, Ariana Greenblatt, Sasha Frolova, Nadia Alexander, David Oyelowo, Drew Powell and Max Cortezi. Ian Samuels is directing from a screenplay by Gillian Williams and Paul Shoulberg, with production currently under way in Bloomington, Indiana, using hundreds of local residents as extras.