Earlier this month, we reported that Columbia Pictures and Sony had picked up the rights to adapt Graeme Simsion’s novel The Rosie Project into a movie, with Jennifer Lawrence attached to star. Phil Lord and Chris Miller were originally supposed to direct, but those scruffy-looking nerf herders recently dropped out when they found something better to do. Now, Deadline says that Sony is looking to replace them with Richard Linklater, another director who is enjoying a Lord-And-Miller-style streak thank to the success of Boyhood. Linklater hasn’t officially signed on yet, but Deadline says he’s “the frontrunner,” so it might just be a matter of time.