Dogs Of Babel - the book, the script and Steve Carell

Steve Carell just signed in to play to protagonist in the screen adaptation of Dogs Of Babel. Screenwriter Jamie Linden (Dear John) adapted the script from the novel by Carolyn Parkhurst.

The story is interesting enough as a book:

Paul Iverson, a linguistics professor, returns home one day to find his wife dead in their backyard. Police rule her death an accident, but Paul is not quite sure. The only witness to her death is their dog Lorelei. In Paul’s grief-stricken search for answers, he endeavors to teach Lorelei to talk in the hopes that he can uncover what happened the day his wife died.

Now, call me weird, but just the words "linguistics professor" make me want to watch the movie already. I only readan older version of the script (2006), and now I need to read a newer (2009) version to see howit all ends up - in the original script it was somehow faded.