The cancellation of My Name is Earl doesn't seem to have slowed Jason Lee down. He's just finished filming Kevin Pollak's Columbus Circle, and his old mucker Kevin Smith's A Couple of Dicks (not to mention Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel). He's got a live-action skateboarding comedy series in the works for Adult Swim (the Cartoon Network's grown-up half). And he's set to make his directorial debut with Get Back.
Get Back is a time travelling adventure about two music obsessives transported to the 1960s, where one of them gets into a love triangle with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Matt Berenson, whose CV isn't the most impressive, it must be said (Daddy Day Care, Daddy Day Camp) is producing.
It's not quite clear whether Lee will also star as one of the two timewarping musos, but we'd imagine that the probability is high.
Lee's affable slacker persona is a good fit for a Back to the Future / Bill and Ted-style comedy with a killer soundtrack (although the rights to those Beatles songs are notoriously hard to negotiate), and he's been around enough talent in the past to know his way around a camera. We'll be interested to see how this develops.
Yoko Ono's thoughts on the project are not yet on record.