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Steve Carell to star in golf comedy based on Rick Reilly book
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Steve Carell is on board to play the lead in "Missing Links," a golf comedy based on a 1997 Rick Reilly novel.
Reilly, the Colorado native and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN. com, wrote the book about four middle-class, obsessed golfing pals from the Boston area. The foursome plays regularly at rundown Ponkaquoque Municipal Course
and Deli. Ponky, as its called in the novel, may be the worst golf course in America that's next to the pristine Mayflower Country Club.
The four buddies bet $1,000 apiece on who will be the first to talk his way on to play Mayflower, the most exclusive private course in Boston.
The film sounds like a cross between "Caddyshack" and an adult version of "Stand By Me."
Reilly, a former sports writer at The Denver Post and the Los Angeles Times before becoming the back-page columnist for Sports Illustrated, wrote the screenplay for the 2008 flick "Leatherheads." The football comedy starred George Clooney and Renee Zellweger. Based on the early days of professional football, "Leatherheads" was a bust at the box office, netting just $40 million worldwide with a production of more than $58 million, according to thenumbers.com, a film information Web site. Reilly, 51, splits time between Denver and Hermosa Beach, Calif., with his wife, Cynthia.
Carell is best known as the star of the NBC comedy, "The Office," and films such as "The 40 Year Old Virgin," "Get Smart" and "Evan Almighty."
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