I Now Pronounce You Jim and Ewan

It's a case of a story so bizarre, that it has to be true: a smalltime conman, married with children, is arrested and thrown into prison. While incarcerated, he falls in love with his cellmate. When said cellmate is released prior to him, he manages to escape and is recaptured ... four times. And, oh yeah -- this all takes place in Texas.

Dorothy, we're not in Oz anymore.

Documented in a book by crime reporter Steve McVicker, I Love You Phillip Morris is now being made into a movie. Helmed by the creators of Bad Santa and starring Jim Carrey, it isn't too hard to figure out that it will be a comedy, albeit a dark one. Let's just hope Carrey doesn't wear a Hawaiian shirt like the one seen on the book cover though ... that would be too much of an Ace Venture flashback for most of us to handle.

Tempering images of another Chuck and Larry fiasco is the recent casting of Ewan McGregor as the title character. McGregor has done gay for pay before, so one would hope he wouldn't sign on for a movie made up solely of lame man-on-man-sex-in-prison jokes. Plus, as we've all seen (and by "seen", I mean "freeze-framed"), he's notorious for going the full monty in just about every movie he's in; now that would certainly provide ample motivation for anyone to break out of prison at least four times ... if not more.

UPDATE: Leslie Mann, who pretty much stole the show in Knocked Up, has been cast as the wife of Jim Carrey's character.