Civil Unrest

Ed Helms will star in pal Steve Carell's produced and as yet untitled American Civil War comedy pic says Variety.

Helms would play a civil war re-enacter, someone who is obsessed about historical precision. He and three other guys (two fellow re-enacters and an African-American professor of history who is protesting the event) are accidentally transported back in time and awaken in the actual civil war.

Once there, they have find there way home without altering history or permanently breaking America in half.

The premise sounds pretty dismal if you ask me...

Helms co-wrote the script with Jacob Fleisher.

Carell and Helms worked together on The Daily Show at one time and now co-star in The Office TV sit-com.