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Napoleon Dynamite star in new comedy deal

Napoleon Dynamite star Jon Heder is to play the lead role in a new comedy called 'Mama's Boy'.

Variety reports that the film follows an arrogant pseudo-intellectual whose ideal home life is thrown into peril when his mother falls in love with a self-help guru.

Filming on 'Mama's Boy' is due to begin in February 2006.

Heder will next be seen on Irish cinema screens in the Reese Witherspoon-Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy 'Just Like Heaven'; the film opens on 25 November.

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