Steve Carell Taking to the Links

Warner Bros. studios recently picked up the rights to Missing Links, a comedy based on a novel by ESPN magazine columnist Rick Reilly.

The novel tells the story of a group of golfers who get tired of playing the shabby municipal course in their working-class neighborhood, and try to scheme their way to moving up to an elite club instead.

Steve Carell has signed on to produce the film under the Carousel Prods. banner, and is unofficially set to star in Missing Links as well. Jay Lavender, writer of The Break-Up, will be writing the screenplay for the film.

No production details have been revealed yet.