Steve Carell Replaces Bruce Willis in Woody Allen's New Movie

Woody Allen is one of the world's most prolific directors, having directed at least one movie per year since 1982, so it's not surprising that he's currently in production on yet another film in Los Angeles. (Well, considering he hasn't filmed in L.A. in years, the location may be the only surprising thing about this.)

His newest movie, which we still don't know anything about and doesn't have a title yet, was supposed to star Bruce Willis as one of the leads, and despite the fact that Willis was photographed filming on set last week, the actor and director have parted ways, supposedly due to "scheduling conflicts" with Willis' appearance in the Broadway version of Stephen King's Misery. But since there's a pretty good chance he's known all about that schedule for a while, and there have been many stories out there about how he's not exactly the easiest actor to work with (including a prominent breakdown from Kevin Smith about the nightmare that was Cop Out), many are assuming he was actually fired from the movie.

Well, Deadline is reporting that Steve Carell has stepped in to take over for Willis, and once again, since we don't know anything about this character, it's tough to speculate about whether or not he's right for the role at this point. We do know that Carell has worked with Allen before in 2004's Melinda and Melinda, so if Willis really was fired, it's easy to see how Allen could have called up a previous collaborator he knew he could work with to fill those shoes (if that's actually what went down - details are obviously sketchy on that end).

The rest of the cast includes Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeannie Berlin, Corey Stoll, Ken Stott, Anna Camp, Stephen Kunken, Sari Lennick, and Paul Schneider, and the movie will be in theaters next summer.