Campbell haunts "Ghost Town" romantic comedy

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Billy Campbell has joined Ricky Gervais and Tea Leoni in the romantic comedy "Ghost Town."

The DreamWorks film centers on a dentist (Gervais) who dies briefly during routine dental surgery and gains the ability to see dead people who ask him for help in contacting the living.

Campbell (USA's "The 4400") will play the love interest of Leoni's character, a widow whose deceased husband-turned-ghost (Greg Kinnear) is trying to thwart her imminent marriage.

David Koepp is directing from a script he wrote with John Kamps. The film will be distributed by Paramount.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter