Jim Carrey And Sacha Baron Cohen Circling BURT WONDERSTONE

According to Pajiba, Jim Carrey has been offered a role in BURT WONDERSTONE scripted by John Francis Daley (Freaks And Geeks, Bones) and Jonathan Goldstein, the duo behind the comedy HORRIBLE BOSSES. The story is about “a magician who loses everything after his ego and his refusal to do new tricks leads his partner to leave him and his show is cancelled. Burt’s childhood idol eventually reminds Burt what magic is all about, and Burt has to convince his partner to return so they can pull off that one magic trick that has eluded him.”
The website also said that Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno), who’s going to be busy with Martin Scorsese‘s 3D adaptation, HUGO CABRET, is also interested in this project but it’s unclear whether he wants to play the lead role Burt or the partner.
No director is attached to BURT WONDERSTONE yet but New Line expects production to start in January.