After
recently co-starring together in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Steve
Carell and James Gandolfini are reuniting for another comedic movie,
this time on TV. Carell and Gandolfini are set to star and executive
produce HBO Films‘ Bone Wars. The project, now in development, is based
on the real-life Bone Wars (aka the Great Dinosaur Rush) between Edward
Drinker Cope of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and
Othniel Charles Marsh of the
Peabody Museum of Natural History
at Yale. Set during the post-Civil War birth of American science, the
film is a sophisticated comedy about one of history’s most notorious
feuds — the great dinosaur fossil race between paleontologists Marsh
(Gandolfini) and Cope (Carell) — a decades-long competition that led to
the discovery of more than 160 dinosaurs and their mutual downward
spiral.
