You Gotta Have Whaaaah?: Gyllenhaal and Carrey in "Damn Yankees"?

Variety is reporting that two actors who get a lot of digital ink around these parts have been attached to the latest big-screen musical. The guys behind the recent Hairspray are looking to revive the 1950's classic Damn Yankees, and have attached Jake Gyllenhaal and Jim Carrey to the project as the male leads.

Carrey is a hot topic in these parts lately thanks to I Love You Phillip Morris (which is still ironing out distribution after its well-received Sundance premiere), where he plays a gay con man. And Gyllenhaal ... dammit, I know he was in some gay movie somewhere, I just can't remember ... Donnie Darko? No ... Bubble Boy? Eh, it'll come to me. Anyway, trust me, the gays love him!

Jakey-poo is set to star as Joe Boyd, a baseball player who sells his soul to the devil, played by Carrey.

I have a few thoughts on the casting: One, there had better be a part in there for Cheyenne Jackson. And two, despite the fact that neither fella has appeared in a musical before, Jake showed his musical theater chops (and how!) when he performed "And I Am Tellin' You" on Saturday Night Live a few years back, and Carrey nicely pulled off the "Cuban Pete" musical number in The Mask.

But more importantly: I cannot wait to see Jake in baseball pants!