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Jack Black Sets Sail
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Jack Black Sets Sail With his larger than life personality, Jack Black will have no problem talking down to the tiny people of Liliput. Black is set to play Gulliver in the newest cinematic adaptation, Gullivers Travels . Looks like short, stocky and hilarious is the new face of adventure. Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels is set to become the next big book-to-flick crossover. Variety reports that Jack Black has attached himself as Gulliver and, by doing so, caused Twentieth Century Fox to greenlight the adaptation. The story follows a surgeon-turned-ship captain as ...
Jack Black To Play Fox’s GULLIVER!!
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I am – Hercules!! Jack Black will play Lemuel Gulliver in Fox’s new version “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. Dave Fleisher, the director behind the theatrical "Superman" and "Popeye" shorts, first brought an animated version of the tale to cinemas in 1939. Find all of Variety’s story on the ...
Jack Black to Star in Gulliver's Travels
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Gulliver's Travels is going to film and Jack Black will be lead. According to Variety, 20th Century Fox is moving forward with the big screen adaptation of the Jonathan Swift book. Story centers 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.
Jack Black is a Modernized Gulliver. Trade Roughage 11/06/08
SpoutBlog —
Apparently someone at Twentieth Century Fox is reading SpoutBlog lists for inspiration: a month after we suggested a contemporarily set adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels starring Will Ferrell, the studio has announced a contemporarily set adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels starring Jack Black (really, though, the project has apparently been in the works for some time). Perhaps we’ll soon hear about a Candide movie at Paramount?
Speaking of literary adaptations, a new CG-animated version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is in the ...
‘Travels’ With Jack: Black Set for 18th C. Lit Update
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Jack Black aims to be the big man in Lilliput.
Variety reports that Jack Black has signed on to play the lead role in Gulliver’s Travels. Rob Letterman is directing. Nicholas Stoller, director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Joe Stillman, Shrek writer, adapted the 18th century Daniel DeFoe novel into a contemporary setting.
The oft-told tale has lately come to be seen as a children’s story, mainly due to a cartoon version from the 1930s, I think, and filmmakers preference for only one episode of the book, Gulliver’s adventures amongst the Lilliputians, a tiny race of ...
Jack Black Going on a Gulliver Travel
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Jack Black has signed on to act hammy in a new Fox adaptation of Gulliver's Travels. From Variety:
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.
Rob Letterman ("Shark Tale") has signed on to direct the contemporary reimagining of the classic Jonathan Swift tale.
Story centers 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 ...
Jack Black Ready For “Gulliver’s Travels”
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... According to a report in Variety, Jack Black has committed to a “contemporary reimagining” of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which has seen a number of big-screen and small-screen adaptations over the years, the most recent of which was a ‘96 miniseries starring Ted Danson. Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller and Shrek writer Joe Stillman wrote the screenplay, which sees ...
Jack Black Packs His Bags For ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
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... You can rest easy tonight, because the next Jack Black comedy is now set in stone. According to Variety, Black is set to star in “Gulliver’s Travels,” a contemporary take on the classic Jonathan Swift story. It will be directed by Nicholas Stoller, the director behind “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and penned by “Shrek” writer Joe Stillman. ...
Jack Black To Star In Gulliver’s Travels
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I met Jack Black once while working at MTV. He wasn’t very nice. Still, he’s signed on to star in a live action version of Gulliver’s Travels.
It’ll be helmed by the guy who co-directed Shark Tale and the upcoming Monsters Vs Aliens.
This contemporary version of the classic novel will see free-spirited travel writer Lemuel Gulliver get into problems in the Bermuda Triangle and wash up ashore on Lilliput, an island of tiny people.
It’s written by the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the writer of Shrek.
In the 1726 book, Gulliver awakes to find himself a ...
Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: John Carpenter’s Riot, Steve Carell’s Beaver, Batman Sues Christopher Nolan?
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For the most part, it was a slow week for movie news, although there were a few interesting announcements by the time the weekend rolled around, not the least of which was talk of a possible Oldboy remake directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Will Smith. We also heard that Road to Perdition would be getting not one but two sequels, and a city in Turkey apparently thinks they were the first ones to ever use the name “Batman”. A promo poster for John Carpenter’s newly renamed prison riot flick also hit the web, and Antonio Banderas was said to be in talks to play wacky surrealist painter Salvador Dali on ...
