Steve Carell May Star in Missing Links

Steve Carell may be filling some of his downtime from The Office with a little golfing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Carell is considering starring in the big screen adaptation of ESPN journalist Rick Reilly's golf novel, Missing Links. Missing Links is set up at Warner Bros with Carell's company, Carousel Productions, producing. The Break-Up screenwriter Jay Lavender is adapting Reilly's novel.

Reilly's book tells the story of three guys from outside of Boston who are obsessed with golf. Although their regular course of choice is the worst public golf course in America, they have a shared dream of one day getting to play on Boston's most exclusive course - the Mayflower. Fed up with having to just dream about the Mayflower's gorgeous, manicured greens, they make a $1,000 bet payable to the first one of the group who plays the exclusive course.

Carell was last seen on the big screen in 2008's Get Smart. He recently wrapped work on Date Night with Mark Wahlberg and the animated comedy Despicable Me, and is busy filming the comedy movie Dinner for Schmucks co-starring Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis.

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