Phil Lord & Chris Miller Eye Romance 'The Rosie Project'

Given the year they've had, thanks to "The Lego Movie" and "22 Jump Street," Phil Lord and Chris Miller can afford to be choosy. Indeed, they looked at "Ghostbusters 3" and decided it wasn't for them, and now they're taking a look at bringing one of the buzziest books of the year to the multiplex.

Deadline reports that Lord and Miller are developing Graeme Simsion's "The Rosie Project," with and the possibility they could direct. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ("The Spectacular Now," "The Fault In Our Stars") are working on the latest draft of the script, and here's the Amazon synopsis so you can see why it has attracted this level of talent:

The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his...