Steve Carell (
Anchorman) is to lead in the comedy
Furry Vengeance, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
He will play a cutthroat real estate developer who meets his match in the animals that will be rendered homeless if he's successful in turning their forest into a housing development.
Carell got his start playing a correspondent on "The Daily Show" and then jumped to the bigscreen as Jim Carrey's nemesis in
Bruce Almighty. He will star in NBC's "The Office: An American Workplace," the network's version of the celebrated British comedy series that is poised for a midseason berth.