You’d be forgiven for thinking Owen Wilson’s upcoming movie is a Bob Ross biopic.

It isn’t, but the only clue that the trailer for Paint, his new movie for IFC Films, isn’t about the man famous for painting “happy little trees” is that his character is addressed as “Carl Nargle.”

Everything about “Carl” will remind you of Bob Ross: he’s soft-spoken, he paints verdant nature-scapes brimming with trees and mountains, and he has a public television program where he teaches people the joy of painting. Oh, and he has a distinctive mop of tight brown curls.

All that notwithstanding, this movie is not quite The Bob Ross Story. Instead, it’s about the aforementioned Carl Nargle, who is the beloved host of a long-running instructional painting series on Vermont public television. Though Carl is the object of lust to many a viewer, he is torn apart when a younger painter played by Ciara Renée gets her own show. The station hires her to attract a different demographic, which serves to aggravate Carl’s insecurities about his own artistic talents.

The new show (called Paint With Ambrosia) is so good because in Carl’s words, Ambrosia “takes paint to a whole new place.” 

Carl, naturally, does not want to be in someone else’s shadow. “You’re entitled to your favorite TV show,” he begrudgingly admits, adding “it’s what makes this country great.” The very next scene shows him throwing a bucket of paint over his work.

Also in the cast are Wendi McLendon-Covey, Michaela Watkins, Stephen Root, Michaela Lusia Strus, and Lucy Freyer.

Written and directed by Brit McAdams, who has written for Tosh.0, and Atom TV, Paint has been long in the making – the script was featured on Hollywood’s Black List of most-loved-yet-unproduced screenplays in 2010. Peter Brant and Sam Maydew produced the film and Wilson, Joel David Moore, Amy Jarvela and Richard J. Bosner are executive producers.

You can view Paint in theaters beginning April 7th.