Steve Carell’s ‘Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World’

What would you do if you had three weeks left to live before the world came crashing down around you?

If you’re anything like Steve Carell‘s character in the forthcoming romantic comedy, “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” you’d find a way to reunite with a long-lost love.

The trailer for Lorene Scafaria‘s film has arrived, and we see Carell’s character, Dodge, hit the road with Keira Knightley‘s Penny to track down his first love as well as Penny’s family before an asteroid called “Matilda” hits the Earth in three weeks.

It’s a dire topic, but the trailer shows that Scafaria, who also wrote the project, takes a lighthearted approach.

With everyone knowing when the end will come, the radio station is counting down “to the end of days…along with all your classic rock favorites,” and employers encourage their workers to don their casual Friday wear everyday of the week.

Carell’s Dodge jokes before the end of the clip, “I feel like I’m getting my mid-life crisis in just under the wire.”

“Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” is set to arrive June 22.

Rainn Wilson: Steve Carell Deserved an Emmy!

No Emmy for Michael Scott!

Rainn Wilson is quite upset that his Office costar, Steve Carell, didn’t win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series on Sunday night.

“The world of TV should be ashamed of itself that Steve Carell never won an Emmy for [the role] of Michael Gary Scott,” Wilson, 45, tweeted last Sunday, after Carell, 49, lost the award to The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons.

Before the Awards had been doled out, Wilson tweeted ominously: “The Office has about zero chance of winning this year because the cast has been relegated to rows U and V.”

The 2010-2011 season of The Office was Carell’s last as a series regular on the show. “I am excited [to be done],” he told reporters last year. “Just so I can spend more time with my family.” (He and wife Nancy have two kids: Elisabeth Anne, 10, and John, 7.)

“I’m sure I’m going to be very nostalgic,” he admitted. “I mean, these are some of my best friends in the world! But it will be good — it will be good for everybody.”

Did Steve Carell deserve the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series?