Paul Rudd has been announced as the lead in a film adaptation of "This American Life."

(RTTNews) - Paul Rudd has been announced as the lead in a film adaptation of "This American Life."

Rudd will star as Bob Nelson, a TV repairman who kicks off the 1960's cryogenics craze by freezing dead people in hopes of reviving them in the future. The film—based on a 2008 "This American Life" story—will be adapted by documentarian Errol Morris and scripted by Zach Helm ("Stranger Than Fiction"), with TAL's Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp producing the project.
Rudd is currently reprising his "Knocked Up" role in an untitled film with Leslie Mann (directed by Judd Apatow) and will next be seen in "Our Idiot Brother" (which is slated for release on August 26) and "Wanderlust" (which will be released this fall).