“[T]he story follows rival Las Vegas magicians where Carell plays a magic man dethroned by a hip younger illusionist and then must find a way to rediscover his love for magic.”

Why anyone would allow a job directing a movie about magicians slip by, I will never understand. So anyway, New Line is now looking for a new director to helm the project, preferably one who knows how to take orders and just cut the lady in half without asking a lot of questions. (via FirstShowing.net)

Written by Horrible Bosses scribes John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the film stars Carell as Wonderstone, a traditional magician who suffers a career setback when he accidentally kills his partner. When he is upstaged by a younger illusionist, he has to rediscover his love of magic. McDougall has experience in Carell wrangling having had directed episodes of”The Office” and that snuff film that “nice guy” Carell doesn’t want anyone to know about. I’ve already said too much. (THR)