Charlie Kaufman to lower Steve Carell’s IQ
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, known for writing movies that require mental gymnastics, and Steve Carell, who was on a hit TV show playing a really stupid guy, are meeting in the middle, for a film about a virus that lowers people’s IQs. Kaufman is taking time off from shopping his pilot that was too weird for FX to do a page one rewrite of IQ 83, based on the 1978 science-fiction novel by Arthur Herzog. Carell is set to star as a scientist who races to find a cure for the virus while consistently growing dumber, which is a pretty retro choice for a guy who is totally over making you laugh.