Demetri Martin Sells Tangled-Up Half-Baked Idea To Dreamworks

Demetri Martin is a Perrier Award winning comedian, and can often be rather funny, so I would have hoped he could have cooked up a better premise than the one he's just taken to the bank. He has apparently sold a pitch to Dreamworks for a feature called Will, all about "an ordinary guy" living in a world where the actions of everybody on earth are predetermined by scripts from heavenly writers. What sets this "ordinary guy" apart from the crowd (besides an implausibly nice apartment, I would imagine) is that one day, his celestial scribe throws in the towell and he has to cope with suddenly being blessed with free will. There are so many problems with this idea, I don't know where to begin, but devising a plot that is as invested in fatalism as necessary, but not dependent on infuriating coincidence, will take some doing.

It all sounds a little bit Truman Almighty, so I dare say Jim Carrey's already been called. He's an "ordinary guy", right?