He's only attached to star, and the search for a director isn't yet complete, but somewhere on the horizon for Steve Carell might be The Beaver, a screwy treat written by 32-year-old Austinite and USC Film School grad Kyle Killen. I like what I hear from Vulture's Dan Kois, who describes it as "Little Miss Sunshine meets Stranger Than Fiction." The write-up makes me lean forward in appreciative anticipation even though I have problems with the former component of that mash-up. Carell doing something darker, or tinged with melancholy, is interesting, and almost certainly a good idea.