Hollywood Ink: Chris Rock Might Spend 2 Days in New York

Also in this morning's Hollywood Ink: Albert Brooks gets tough for Drive... Steven Spielberg gives Alex Kurtzman a new hyphen... Paramount goes back to School... and more ahead.

· Get out some 'tussin. Chris Rock has reportedly been cast opposite Julie Delpy in 2 Days in New York, the follow-up to Delpy's 2 Days in Paris. Rock's role in the film is uncertain, but he might be playing Delpy's lover. Or he might not! Regardless, don't expect him to pee in a pool, a la Grown Ups. [The Wrap]

· Considering Albert Brooks can make even the most mundane projects fairly exciting -- hello, Weeds -- this should be fun. Brooks will star opposite Ryan Gosling, Bryan Cranston and Carey Mulligan in Drive for Nicolas Winding Refn. He'll play a tough guy New York mobster transplanted to Los Angeles, which sounds like either the best idea ever or the worst. [Deadline]

· Looks like someone needs new business cards! Screenwriter-producer Alex Kurtzman has been signed by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks to direct Welcome to People, a character drama based on his own script with frequent partner Roberto Orci. Take it away, Vulture: "Welcome to People tells the story of a struggling twentysomething man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son." Hoo boy. The Shins should expect a phone call. [Vulture]

· How did She's Out of My League screenwriters George Kay and Jim Field Smith pitch their original script, School of Horrors, to Paramount? Per Deadline, as "Home Alone in Hogwarts." Well that's technically original. [Deadline]

· Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, the team behind Kung Fu Panda, will write the sequel to Karate Kid. As long as they find room for this, it's cool. [THR/Heat Vision]

· Fresh off Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, the Stephen Dorff comeback starts now. He'll carjack Maria Bello in Carjacked. [Variety]