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Published on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 9:36pm |
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Jack Black To Play Fox’s GULLIVER!!
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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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Reader Talkback
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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