Robert Zemeckis shoots for a DiCaprio and lands on a Carell for his memory loss movie

By Victor Beigelman | April 16, 2015 | 9:08pm

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Back in October, we reported that Robert Zemeckis wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to star in his fictional adaptation of Jeff Malmberg’s 2010 documentary Marwencol. We also told you to stay tuned for either another critically acclaimed film starring DiCaprio, or an insight into which actors take the roles he turns down. Well, as it turns out, one of those backups is Steve Carell, who was recently nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Foxcatcher.

According to The Wrap, Carell has signed on to portray Mark Hogancamp, who was brutally beaten by a gang of teenagers and later awoke from a coma with almost no memory of his past life. To cope with the trauma, he built a miniature WWII-era village populated with dolls whose identities were very real to him.