document: Steve Carell '' `` Seeking a Friend '' '' with Keira Knightley Steve Carell is no longer officially keeping Office hours , but he 's already lined up his first post-Michael Scott role . The actor 's rep confirms a Deadline report that Carell will play a lonely man who sets out with his neighbor to locate his high school sweetheart before the imminent end of the world in the aptly-titled , Seeking a Friend for the End of the World . Keira Knightley is currently in negotiations to join him -- not as the high school sweetheart , but as the road-tripping neighbor . Lorene Scafaria , who scripted Nick & Nora 's Infinite Playlist , wrote the screenplay and will direct . The film begins shooting May 16 . Carell 's summer is now almost booked , as he follows Seeking a Friend with Great Hope Springs , opposite Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones .
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