Steve Carell has been slowly transitioning toward more dramatic roles ever since he quit
The Office to focus on his rising film career, but some of his choices have sounded a bit questionable, at least on paper. One of the stranger ones he's been attached to is the lead in
The Dogs of Babel, an adaptation of
Carolyn Parkhurst's debut novel.
The premise of the story - a grieving man tries to teach his dog to speak - is ...