Steve Carell Wants A Boyfriend For His Wife Warner Bros. is seeking " A Boyfriend for My Wife ," setting up a remake of the 2008 Argentine romantic comedy with Steve Carell's Carousel Prods. as a starring vehicle for the actor. Carell will produce along with Christine Peters ("How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days") and Michael Cerenzie. Grace Ledding is co-producing, and Carousel's Charlie Hartsock and Vance DeGeneres are exec producing. Warners has tapped the writing team of Mark Gibson and Phil Halprin ("Snow Dogs") to adapt. In the original film, " Un novio para mi mujer ," a timid husband believes the only way out of his stifling marriage is to get his wife to fall in love with another man, so he enlists the help of a legendary yet unlikely Lothario. Carell produced and starred in Warner's marital comedy "Crazy, Stupid Love" via WB-based Carousel with Hartsock and DeGeneres. "Love," directed by Glenn Ficarra