Universal has optioned "My Outsourced Life," an A.J. Jacobs article in the September issue of Esquire magazine, for Director Jay Roach (who helmed the "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" flicks). Roach will write the story with Larry Stuckey who will pen the script, and Roach gets first crack at directing it reports Variety.
Jacobs, an editor-at-large at Esquire who weeks ago sold his book proposal "The Year of Living Biblically" to Paramount and Plan B, has notched his second sale with an article that chronicles his attempt to join the outsourcing craze sweeping corporate America.
He decided to apply the practice to his modest writing career. He began with a sweet assistant named Honey, who did his bidding and organized his business by phone from India. She was so spectacularly efficient that the writer soon had a team of India-based assistants, handling every part of his life, including dialogue with his parents and gifts for his wife.
Roach is deciding between "Elling"; the comedy "Used Guys," with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn; and "The Party" remake for his next assignment.
Thanks to 'Eric'
