You might expect that Alcon Entertainment, the company that has enjoyed a big hit with triumph-over-adversity, based-on-truth, Sandra Bullock-starring pic The Blind Side, would adapt the tale of a man who experiences puberty in three weeks thanks to a weird medical condition into a stirring tale of hormones and humanity. You'd be wrong: they're going for the laughs.
**Late Bloomer **will be adapted from Ken Baker's 2001 book Man Made: A Memoir, which chronicles his struggle with a tumor that squatted on his pituitary gland and delayed his puberty, leading to plenty of high school taunting.
Things took another turn when a successful operation at age 27 saw him back to normal, but facing the prospect of experiencing all the usual effects and issues of puberty over a short three-week period. Ouch.
Alcon nabbed the rights back in 2008 and apparently commissioned Gary Rosen to write a more dramatic script. But now the company has decided to pitch it more along the lines of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and **Sleepover **director Joe Nussbaum has been hired to turn it into a chuckle-fest.