With Steve Carell preparing to leave The Office at the end of the next season, he’s wasting no time putting film projects into development that he has his eye on starring in. Now Variety is reporting that Carell’s Carousel Productions is working on a remake of the 2008 Argentine movie, A Boyfriend For My Wife, which the funnyman will star in and produce.
The original film is about shy husband who doesn’t like his life and marriage, but is too scared to ask for a divorce. Instead, he decides to find a lover for his wife, enlisting the help of a legendary yet unlikely lothario. Inevitably though, things don’t go quite according to plan, and getting his spouse to fall for another man is decidednly tricky.