Director Joel Schumacher has signed on and Jim Carrey is in talks to join psychological thriller The Number 23 for New Line Cinema reports today’s trades.

The script, written by Fernley Phillips, follows a man who becomes obsessed and haunted upon reading a book that seems to be about his life but ends with a murder. The number 23 is woven throughout the plot.

Schumacher was previously attached but had put the project on the back burner to concentrate on “The Crowded Room”, but with that film now undergoing major re-writes, the time in his and Carrey’s schedules have opened up to fit in ‘23’ before they move on to ‘Crowded’ and Ben Stiller comedy “Used Guys” respectively.

Shooting begins November. This would mark the first time the pair have worked together since their earlier team-up on 1995’s “Batman Forever”.

[more 23 info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%...erology%29 ]