Twentieth Century Fox is moving forward with a bigscreen adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black taking on the title role as his next project.
The film will be contemporary version of the classic tale and it will be directed by Rob Letterman.
The film will center on Lemuel Gulliver, a free spirited travel writer who, on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of industrious, yet tiny, people.
The script is written by the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall Nicholas Stoller and Joe Stillman who wrote Shrek.
Fox has kept development of the project under wraps. Though Letterman has been attached to direct the film for some time now, but the project got the green light the moment Jack Black said yes. Shooting will start in March for the film; locations are still being set.
Fox based John Davis is producing alongside Black’s Electric Dynamite shingle and Ben Cooley, Black’s partner.
Swift’s novel has had several big screen adaptations, including a 1996 miniseries starring Ted Danson.
Black has a string of projects lined up for him in the coming year. Judd Apatow produced comedy The Year One. He will also be seen in two sequels as well School of Rock and Kung Fu Panda.
Letterman and Conrad Vernon will direct Monsters VS Aliens for Dreamworks Animation.
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