Charlie Kaufman is working on a new project for TV and has some interesting names attached. According to Variety, Michael Cera and John Hawkes are both set to star in How and Why, a half-hour comedy pilot for FX that “revolves around a brilliant man who understands nuclear physics but is clueless about how life works.” The pilot will be filmed sometime this spring, and Kaufman will produce with his Eternal Sunshine collaborator Anthony Bregman.
Kaufman’s had a few recent projects that didn’t didn’t come to onscreen fruition, including an HBO comedy starring Catherine Keener and Frank or Francis, a feature film starring Jack Black, Elizabeth Banks, Steve Carell, Kate Winslet, and Nicolas Cage that fell apart due to finance issues in the fall.
