Posted: Mon., Oct. 26, 2009, 6:52pm PT

Warner Bros. looks for 'Missing Links'

Steve Carell is set to produce the comedy

Warner Bros. is looking for "Missing Links," buying the golf novel and setting it up with Steve Carell to produce as a comedy through his studio-based Carousel Prods. shingle.

Bobby Cohen is also producing, and Carousel's Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock will exec produce.

Jay Lavender ("The Break-Up") is attached to adapt Rick Reilly's tale of a group of golfing buddies at a run-down Boston course. The group discovers they've been playing next to an elite club and holds a competition to decide who will be first to play a round.

Carell is starring opposite Tina Fey in Fox comedy "Date Night," due out next April. Reilly's a columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. Cohen was a producer on "Revolutionary Road."


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