{"id":32915,"date":"2014-03-18T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32915"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:17:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:17:46","slug":"steve-carell-to-headline-cancer-drama-the-priority-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/18\/steve-carell-to-headline-cancer-drama-the-priority-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Carell To Headline Cancer Drama THE PRIORITY LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steve Carell will be headlining the cast of The Priority List<\/strong>, an adaptation of David Menasche living with cancer memoir The Priority List: A Teacher\u2019s Final Quest to Discover Life\u2019s Greatest Lessons<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to the book with Carell also attached to produce along with his production partners Charlie Hartsock and Vance DeGeneres.<\/p>\n

The book chronicles Menasche’s 2006 diagnosis of brain cancer and how the Miami high school teacher went on to go past the doctors’ belief that he only had a few months to live thanks to several surgeries and chemotherapy. After a seizure in 2012 forced him to retire from teaching, he went on to travel cross country to reconnect with several of students from his 15-year teaching career.<\/p>\n

Although the actor has had a few roles that had a dramatic component, this would be his first full-on non-comedic role. Now sometimes comics reaching for serious dramatic weight can fall short, but I’ve liked Carell when he’s taken these more dramatic turns so I am interested in seeing how this turns out.<\/p>\n

Via Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will be the comic actor’s first fully dramatic role.<\/div>\n

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