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"NBC&amp;#039;s About a Boy TV pilot has cast David Walton in the main adult role. The Perfect Couples actor will play the self-involved bachelor portrayed by Hugh Grant in the 2002 film adaptation of Nick Hornby&amp;#039;s novel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.   Friday Night Lights and Parenthood exec Jason Katims is writing and acting as executive producer, while Iron Man helmer Jon Favreau will direct. The part of the boy Marcus, played by Warm Bodies star Nicholas Hoult in the movie, has not yet been cast. This is the second attempt to bring About a Boy to television, with Fox previously shooting a pilot in 2003. That adaptation - which was not picked up to series - featured Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy actor Patrick Dempsey in the lead role and was directed by Ken Kwapis (The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants). As well as appearing in Perfect Couples, Walton was the lead in NBC&amp;#039;s short-lived Bent and has appeared in New Girl and Happy Endings. Watch a clip from the About a Boy movie below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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