Karey Kirkpatrick has been hired to direct an adaptation of the John O’Farrell 2002 novel THE BEST A MAN CAN GET, and no it’s not based on the cheesy Gillette shaving adverts, but is instead a comedy about fatherhood.

Variety say the project is being setup at Paramount and will be co-written by Kirkpatrick and O’Farrell once the strike is over…

Set in London, “The Best a Man Can Get: A Novel of Fatherhood and Its Discontents” revolves around a musician with major commitment problems that lead him into a double life. He bunks with three pals in a bachelor’s flat, but he is also a married man and father of two small children who tells his exasperated wife he often sleeps in the studio, working hard on jingle writing.

O’Farrell’s work has been compared to that of Nick Hornby, the talented British author whose books HIGH FIDELITY, ABOUT A BOY and FEVER PITCH have already been translated into films. So if you imagine the tone to that type of humor, you might see what we are getting at here.

Kirkpatrick was the director of the Dreamworks animated comedy OVER THE HEDGE and has recently directed his live-action debut movie NOWHERELAND starring Eddie Murphy and Thomas Haden Church due out in October.

But who cares about that? What I wanna know is, will a Gillette advert make it to the dance?