Universal Pictures Acquires Novel Lunatics As Star Vehicle For Steve Carell

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the Dork Craig and Alan Zweibel novel Lunatics, with Steve Carell mounted on star. The film is going to be created by Scott Stuber and Pam Abdy of Stuber Pictures and Carell and the Slide carousel partners Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock. The Craig-Zweibel collaboration is 2 Nj soccer fathers whose minor feud gets worse to produce worldwide effects, and then leave them running for his or her lives. Craig and Zweibel will adapt their novel, which is released by Putnam in The month of january. Carell will have Philip Horkman, who owns a dog store who refs kids soccer games every sunday, there he meets an irate soccer father who triggers the misadventures. Carell, who’s repped by WME and Media Four, will begin filming Burt Wonderstone with Jim Carrey in The month of january for brand new Line and Warner Bros. Zweibel, who’s writing an Cinemax comedy pilot vehicle for Cent Marshall, was repped by Paradigm, and CAA reps Craig. Their lit representative is Author’s House. Stuber is preparing the Denzel Washington-Ryan Reynolds drama Safe House, as well as wrapped Battleship, and also the Seth MacFarlane-directed Ted and it is presently creating the Keanu Reeves-starrer 47 Ronin.