Steve Carell Is One Of Two LUNATICS

Like Energizer bunny for comedy, Steve Carell just keeps on going and going. Deadline said Universal has bought the screen rights to LUNATICS and Steve Carell is attached to star in this adaptation about two feuding New Jersey soccer dads, based on the book of the same title by authors Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel who both will write the screenplay…

Here’s the book‘s official synopsis..

One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of . . . Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic genius, and they will have you laughing like idiots.
Philip Horkman is a happy man-the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for kids’ soccer. Jeffrey Peckerman is the sole sane person in a world filled with goddamned jerks and morons, and he’s having a really bad day. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, terrorists, subversives, bears, and a man dressed as Chuck E. Cheese.
Where that all takes them you can’t begin to guess, but the literary journey there is a masterpiece of inspiration and mayhem. But what else would you expect from the League of Comic Justice?

Carell will play Philip Horkman, no word yet on who Universal will cast in the role of Jeffrey Peckerman