× Thanks for reading! Log in to continue. Enjoy more articles by logging in or creating a free account. No credit card required. Log in Sign up {{featured_button_text}}

Alexander Payne’s next film, “Downsizing,” is looking for some Omaha extras.

Rudy Jansen, a casting assistant with the Paramount production, said the film is seeking men and women of all ages and races for background and extra roles. The film will shoot in Omaha for a few days during the second week of April.

In addition to Payne’s hometown, “Downsizing” will film in Los Angeles, Norway and mostly in Toronto.

The World-Herald reported this week that Payne’s film will be his biggest to date and his first to shoot in Omaha since 2002’s “About Schmidt.”

The movie, which stars Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon, Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Sudeikis, takes place 15 years after Norwegian scientists have started a process of shrinking humanity due to the deleterious effects of climate change and overpopulation. The scale of shrinkage is such that a 6-foot-tall person becomes a 5-inch-tall person. Humanity’s transition is expected to take between 200 to 300 years.

The film focuses on an Omaha man (Damon) who decides to make the big-to-small transition.