Steve Carell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Louis Gossett Jr. ing John Krasinski’s ‘IF’

It’s been years since Steve Carell and IF’.

The film, which Krasinski is planning to write, direct, produce and appear in (like he did for both ‘Imaginary Friends’ – was first announced back in 2019.

Based on an idea by Krasinski, the story has officially been listed as “a child’s journey to rediscover their imagination”, and reportedly follows a man (Reynolds) who can see and communicate with other peoples’ imaginary friends, who, it turns out, are not so imaginary. He befriends those who have been forgotten or discarded, but some become irretrievably evil, and he must find a way to stop them.

It all sounds like a cross between 1991’s Inside Out’?

And Carell is only one of the new cast that Krasinski has rounded up to co-star in the movie. There’s also Enemy Mine’ in the 1980s.

Finally, young actress Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker’.

Carell, of course, is no stranger to screens – though ‘The Office’ boosted his profile even higher than it already was, he’s since gone on to movies including the ‘Adam McKay.

Krasinski has increasingly been working as a director and producer, though he also still stars in the ‘Jack Ryan’ TV series for Amazon and will be heard on cinema screens this year in the animated ‘DC League Of Super-Pets’, playing Superman. He’s also developing a third ‘Quiet Place’ movie, though he won’t direct that one.

Paramount Pictures is making the new movie, and both Krasinski’s Sunday Night and Reynolds’ Maximum Effort production companies have deals there.

The movie is scheduled for release on November 17, 2023.