Steve Carell Going Dark With 'Foxcatcher'
Fri, September 30, 2011 
Steve Carell is heading to the place where many comedic actors have ventured to: dramatic acting.
Like Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, and Will Ferrell before him, Carell will attempt to give a full-fledged, serious role a shot.
Variety reports the former Office star has been picked by director Bennett Miller (the newly released Moneyball) to topline Foxcatcher, the true story of John du Pont, who murdered an Olympic wrestler back in 1996.
Apparently, Miller has been working on this project for nearly four years with scripting duties coming from E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman, the duo that wrote his debut feature, Capote.
The film will tell the story of John du Pont (Carell) who, while being both a paranoid schizophrenic and heir to his family's chemical fortune, builds a wrestling gym on his Pennsylvania estate called Team Foxcatcher. It was there in 1996 that du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler David Schultz in front of Schultz's wife and du Pont's head of security. du Pont then proceeded to lock himself in his mansion for the next two days while police negotiated his surrender.
This will be quite a turn for Carell as many know him as the lovable idiot, Michael Scott, from TV's The Office, or his comdedic films like The 40-Year Old Virgin and Get Smart.
Filming is expected to get underway in March.
Source: Variety
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