Walt Becker and writing partner Peter Nelson have been hired to rewrite "The Other Billy Drake" for Paramount, reports Variety.
Pic may also serve as a directing vehicle for Becker ("National Lampoon's Van Wilder") though no negotiations have yet commenced.
The offbeat romantic comedy concerns a selfish self-help guru and confirmed bachelor who accidentally catches a glimpse of hell during a near-death experience and likes it. To return to hell, he must first return to Earth and break the only sin he skipped in his life -- that of adultery. Marrying and immediately cheating on a woman who cares for him proves harder than it sounds, however, when he realizes that larger forces may be at play.