Stephen Frears and D.V. DeVincentis, the team behind the winning ""High Fidelity" starring John Cusack, could be joining forces again.

Frears is set to direct "Lay the Favorite" which DeVincentis is writing. The dramedy is apparently set in the world of geeky gamblers with Focus Features distributing.

The project is based on Beth Raymer's upcoming memoir "Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog," which Random House is set to publish in the spring.
 
The memoir follows a group of math geeks in their fifties who figure out how to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas for their own benefit. The center point is a woman who is in her early thirties plagued by a series of bad choices who achieves a redemption of sorts when she meets and then becomes involved with the gamblers.