Move over, Grinch, because Santa has a new nemesis: Napoleon Dynamite.

Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder (“Napoleon Dynamite”) are set to face off against one another in “School of Scoundrels,” Variety reported Wednesday.

The film, a remake of an obscure ’60s British comedy of the same name, will centre around a shy, down-on-his-luck meter reader (Heder, star of last year’s hit “Napoleon Dynamite”) who enrolls in a confidence-building class to help him win over his dream girl.

When he learns that the motivational speaker (Thornton, who?s recently appeared in ?Bad Santa? and ?The Bad News Bears?) has a yen for the same women, the two men find themselves in a no-holds-barred battle for her affections.

The female lead has not yet been cast.

The comedy, by The Weinstein Co.?s Dimension Films, is being directed by Todd Phillips. Phillips co-wrote the script with Scot Armstrong, with whom he previously collaborated on screwball comedies ?Old School,? ?Starsky & Hutch? and ?Road Trip.?

?Scoundrels? will begin shooting in October in New York and Los Angeles, and is scheduled for a spring 2006 release date.

As a particular carrot-topped, bespectacled teen would say: ?Flippin? sweet!?






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