Steve Carell has been saying for over a year now that he doesn't want to come back for The Office's May 16th finale and showrunner Greg Daniels denied Carell's involvement in the final episode as recently as last week, but despite all that, TV Line reports today that Carell will be back to say goodbye one last time. TV Line's source says that Carell's appearance in the last episode is closer to a cameo than a full-on guest appearance, but he will allegedly be in the episode somewhere – unless this is just another lie in this constantly flip-flopping story.
Steve Carell and James Gandolfini, who both recently appeared in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, are making another movie together – this time for TV. Deadline reports that Carell and Gandolfini have signed on to star in and executive produce Bone Wars, an HBO movie based on the true story of rival paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in the 1800s. The movie is a comedy following "The Bone Wars" (aka "The Great Dinosaur Rush"), in which Cope and Marsh got into an intense competition to discover the most dinosaur fossils, leading both of their lives into turmoil. Gandoflini will play Marsh and Carell will play Cope, [...]
Steve Carell's magician comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone hits theaters tomorrow, and like most movies, it took a long time to come together. When the project was originally put into development in 2006, it was called Burt Dickenson: The Most Powerful Magician on Planet Earth, and the movie has changed shape a lot in the years since. Directors Jake Kasdan and Charles McDougall each came and went before the studio finally found 30 Rock's Don Scardino, who got the thing made. A number of actors either tried out for or passed on parts in Burt Wonderstone, from movie stars to character actors to nichey comedians. Let's take a look [...]
"There are no universal truths [about comedy]. I am very reticent about talking about what makes something funny. I love to hear these comedic minds talk about themselves and their careers and why they think things might be funny. But if something works, I don't want to overthink it. It might not work next time."
- Steve Carell explaining his comic philosophy to The Wall Street Journal in a piece about Inside Comedy, the Showtime interview series he produces.
