Steve Carell Considering Doing Magic As 'Burt Wonderstone'

Steve Carell likes being busy it seems, because even as he enters his final season of "The Office" he has a shooting break in October and of course, he'll be widely available come March, so his agents are quickly trying to fill up his schedule.

One project that he's currently considering is the magician comedy "Burt Wonderstone." Sound familiar? The project cropped up earlier this summer when it was offered to Jim Carrey, but with the rubber faced comedian moving on to other projects including "Mr. Popper's Penguins" it still needs a leading man to get the project rolling.

The film comes from "Horrible Bosses" writers John Francis Daley and Jonathon Goldstein and tells the tale of "a Vegas magician who accidentally kills his partner and must regain his mojo (or, as the logline has it, his "hocus-pocus focus") while simultaneously competing with a rival." And really, it sounds right in the Carell wheelhouse.

No director is attached yet and of course, it remains to be seen if Carell ends up taking on the project at all. It's one of many scripts he's currently working his way through before making a decision.