Bacon will play FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers. 
Kevin Bacon has joined the thrown of Patriots Day, CBS Films and Lionsgate's Boston Marathon besieging thriller presently shooting in Beantown.Pete Berg is coordinating the motion picture, which stars Mark Wahlberg and has a thrown that incorporates John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Michelle Monaghan, Jimmy O. Yang and Vincent Curatola, among others.
The pic recounts the occasions encompassing the 2013 Boston Marathon shelling. Wahlberg will depict a composite Boston Police Department officer who is key to the examination and manhunt.
Bacon will play FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers.
"Richard DesLauriers worked eagerly as one of the key figures in an incomprehensibly complex examination and Kevin Bacon has the knowledge and sympathy to depict him," Berg said Thursday in an announcement.
This isn't the first run through Bacon has played a FBI specialists. Truth be told, his latest motion picture was the Johnny Depp dramatization Black Mass, in which he played a composite character of numerous authorities accountable for a Boston office. He additionally played an ex-FBI operators on the Fox TV arrangement The Following.
Bacon is repped by WME, MGMT Entertainment and Gaines/Solomon Law.
Nationalists Day is set to open in Boston, New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 21.