Steve Carell’s dramatic turn is getting even deeper. THR reports that he has signed on to co-produce and star in The Priority List, a drama based on David Menasche’s memoir The Priority List: A Teacher’s Final Quest to Discover Life’s Greatest Lessons. In the memoir, Menasche recounts being a high school English teacher in 2006 given a supposedly fatal brain cancer diagnosis, which led to him going on a cross-country journey to connect with hundreds of past students from his 15 years as a teacher and learn to live life in the present while battling cancer, which took away his ability to continue work as a teacher. Carell’s next dramatic film role will be alongside Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum in the Olympic wrestling film Foxcatcher, which is set for release sometime this year.
Steve Carell Gets Another Dramatic Starring Role in ‘The Priority List’
