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Jack Black To Play Fox’s GULLIVER!!

I am – Hercules!!

Jack Black will play the title role in Fox’s new version of “Gulliver’s Travels,” based on Jonathan Swift’s 1726 tale of a fellow who finds in distant lands people of improbable size.

Rob Letterman (“Shark Tale”) directs from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller (“Fun With Dick And Jane,” “Yes Man”) and Joe Stillman ("Beavis & Butt-head," "King of the Hill," “Shrek,” "Shrek II"). Shooting starts in March.

Swift's tale has been adapted a zillion other times. Georges Méliès, of "A Trip To The Moon" fame, shot a silent version in 1902. Dave Fleisher, the director behind the theatrical "Superman" and "Popeye" shorts, brought an animated version of the tale to cinemas in 1939. The Japanese came up with 1965's "Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon." Ricahrd Harris played Gulliver in a 1977 live-action/animation hybrid. Ted Danson headlined a 1996 miniseries.

Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.

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FIRST!
by mpiehler
Nov 5th, 2008
08:39:35 PM
Bah!
by Spacker Dave
Nov 5th, 2008
08:40:42 PM
Hmm
by ShogunMaster
Nov 5th, 2008
08:44:55 PM
Jack Black has entered the Will Farrell zone
by Stuntcock Mike
Nov 5th, 2008
08:45:36 PM
Ive Always Hated Gulliver...And His Travels
by Frodo T. Baggins
Nov 5th, 2008
08:49:14 PM
Jack Black is dangerously close to the Rob Schneider zone
by Heckles
Nov 5th, 2008
09:04:52 PM
Glum says, It'll never work.
by Ingeld
Nov 5th, 2008
09:06:56 PM
Predictions:
by Thrillho77
Nov 5th, 2008
09:31:03 PM
wow i cant beleive you dont mention
by robamenta
Nov 5th, 2008
09:43:34 PM
Very exciting.
by Thunderbolt Ross
Nov 5th, 2008
09:50:30 PM
1996 mini-series
by The Dum Guy
Nov 5th, 2008
09:51:59 PM
Letterman and Black raped my high school English class
by GunterMonkey
Nov 5th, 2008
09:53:36 PM
What??
by ChezKing
Nov 5th, 2008
10:04:19 PM
How many times are they gonna remake this?
by Orionsangels
Nov 5th, 2008
10:19:16 PM
Hayden Panettiere to star in Gullivera?
by Orionsangels
Nov 5th, 2008
10:22:11 PM
The Danson Version...
by BrooseTheScharuk
Nov 5th, 2008
10:22:29 PM
IN A RELATED STORY...
by jackofhearts29
Nov 5th, 2008
10:22:31 PM
OH DEAR GOD, WHY?!?
by jmac4ever
Nov 5th, 2008
10:28:23 PM
What about 3 Worlds of Gulliver?
by Orbots Commander
Nov 5th, 2008
10:47:24 PM
why does everything serious have to be
by crankyoldguy
Nov 5th, 2008
11:09:06 PM
meanwhile get the Fleisher animated classic...
by crankyoldguy
Nov 5th, 2008
11:10:13 PM
Boring story...
by jimmy_009
Nov 5th, 2008
11:22:38 PM
Frodo T. Baggins
by deanbarry
Nov 5th, 2008
11:27:51 PM
re::BrooseTheScharuk
by The Dum Guy
Nov 6th, 2008
12:14:46 AM
Cradle the balls, stroke the shaft, work the pipe...
by BurnHollywood
Nov 6th, 2008
12:18:58 AM
from the "director" of SHARK-FREAKIN'-TALE?
by Undead03
Nov 6th, 2008
12:36:50 AM
No one here has read Guliver have they?
by menstrual_blitz
Nov 6th, 2008
01:02:51 AM
menstrual_blitz
by deanbarry
Nov 6th, 2008
01:44:55 AM
I always hoped that one day...
by BiggusDickus
Nov 6th, 2008
02:54:53 AM
Jack Black...
by David Cloverfield
Nov 6th, 2008
04:17:38 AM
GET THAT CORN COB OUTTA MY FACE!!!!
by I_am_not_the_droid_you_are_loo king_for
Nov 6th, 2008
04:32:35 AM
Jack get in form Bro
by hallmitchell
Nov 6th, 2008
05:16:45 AM
This is so wrong
by judderman
Nov 6th, 2008
06:04:52 AM
What about the Yahoos?
by Bodenland Unbound
Nov 6th, 2008
06:43:04 AM
Jack Black is great and so is
by Second Try
Nov 6th, 2008
06:50:34 AM
How About an Absurd Adaption of "A Modest Proposal"
by Shut the Fuck up Donny
Nov 6th, 2008
07:30:53 AM
I've read Gulliver's Travels.....
by mossad77
Nov 6th, 2008
07:51:36 AM
So it's a slapstick Gulliver?
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Nov 6th, 2008
08:13:18 AM
danson gulliver is awesome
by swanstep
Nov 6th, 2008
08:41:20 AM
Gotta Chug the Haterade
by toxicbuddha
Nov 6th, 2008
08:44:32 AM
it will be a kiddie movie
by Rupee88
Nov 6th, 2008
09:43:14 AM
Ted Danson's Gulliver was actually good.
by ArcadianDS
Nov 6th, 2008
09:45:54 AM
Jack Black is a Big Endian
by Dr Lizardo
Nov 6th, 2008
11:25:07 AM
it'll be updated like Eddie Murphy's Dr. Doolittle
by Charlie_Allnut
Nov 6th, 2008
02:17:44 PM
people take swift too serious sometimes...
by menstrual_blitz
Nov 6th, 2008
03:31:11 PM
he was all about fart and piss and shit jokes, the book is full
by mossad77
Nov 6th, 2008
07:14:56 PM
No mossad77 it isn't the only part of the book.
by Dr.DirtyD
Nov 7th, 2008
03:38:17 AM
Orionsangels
by DarthBakpao
Nov 7th, 2008
03:55:24 AM
Adventures in lilliput or gulliver's travels?
by abigsmurf
Nov 7th, 2008
06:12:30 AM
Jack Black is fast becoming...
by Kid Z
Nov 7th, 2008
07:41:11 AM
There are some scenes in La Puta
by TimBenzedrine
Nov 7th, 2008
12:00:23 PM
My Bad
by TimBenzedrine
Nov 7th, 2008
12:39:53 PM
fuck yeah man Gullivera
by The Amazing G
Nov 10th, 2008
07:02:51 AM

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