Kate Hudson joins Zach Braff in 'Wish I Was Here'

Kate Hudson has landed the female lead in this film scripted by Zach Braff and his brother Adam and crowd-funded through a Kickstarter web campaign.

Zach Braff, who gained fame as Dr. John Dorian on the TV medical-comedy drama series "Scrubs," has announced Kate Hudson's attachment on the project's dedicated page on crowd-funding site Kickstarter.com. The actress will be playing the wife of a failed actor with sci-fi daydreams played by Braff.

Deep in debt, the couple can't afford to enroll their two kids in a good private school, so the father undertakes to home-school them -- a process that leads him to an understanding of the meaning of life in general and his own life in particular.

Anna Kendrick ("Up In the Air"), Mandy Patinkin ("Homeland") and Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory") will also be in the cast of "Wish I Was Here." The Kickstarter campaign for the project has another three days to run. $2.7m in funding has been raised so far from over 40,000 donors.