Jay Baruchel claims his rightful screenwriting destiny as a member of the Apatow Gang

Perhaps the most awkward young gosling in the entire Apatow awkward-comedy nest, Jay Baruchel has been similarly nudged out to fly solo in the screenwriting world, signing on to follow-up his recently completed comedy Goon (which he co-wrote with Seth Rogen’s writing partner Evan Goldberg) to pen two new scripts. The first, Random Acts Of Violence, is an adaptation of the eponymous comic about two artists whose horror character comes to life and begins murdering for real; the second is Summit’s Exorcism Diaries, based on Mark Opsasnick’s investigative book The Real Story Behind The Exorcist. It concerns a reporter whose search for the truth behind exorcisms, as in all “exorcism skeptic” stories, might just turn up some unexpected answers that you can nevertheless probably guess at right now.