If Steve Carell made all the films that Hollywood seems to want him to do, there’d be a new one a week. Just yesterday we reported how he’s being line up to star in Mail Order Groom alongside Tina Fey, and now Variety says that Warner has bought a currently untitled script for Steve to star in by Cars screenwriter Dan Fogelman.
However, with his schedule for The Office taking up nine months of the year, whether Carell will have time for the movie during the series’ summer hiatus next year is another matter entirely. Although with Warner having paid Fogelman $2 million for the screenplay, they’ll have to be hoping they can get some sort of movie made out of it, as it’s believed to be the biggest spec script sales of the year.
Details of the plot are a little sketchy, although it’s described as having a tone comparable to Love Actually, with Carell playing a father who has a mid-life marital crisis and tries to handle his relationship with his children.
The script was written with Carell in mind, and it seems the cost is partly due to the fact that Warner has a development deal with Steve, and while they originally planned to film Get Smart 2 next year, that’s now been delayed, so they’re desperately trying to find something else to woo him with.