Jack Black to Be in "Gulliver's Travels"

In keeping with his recent success with the kids film, Kung Fu Panda, Jack Black will be the star in the new Gulliver's Travels, reports Zap2it.com.

The movie will start shooting at an as of yet unknown location next year, and will have the talents of Rob Letterman as director and a script from Joe Stillman with a rewrite from Nicholas Stoller who was one of the brains behind Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

According to Zap2it.com, the movie will be a loose adaptation of the much loved story first published by Jonathan Swift in 1726, which was originally called Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.

Black plays Lemuel Gulliver, a travel writer who has adventures on the island of Lilliput after getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

It might be fun for audiences to watch and compare, as this is not the first time Gulliver's has been set to film. There was an Emmy earning version starring Ted Danson, and a partially animated version staring Richard Harris produced in 1960.

This new version should still be interesting though, as Black has never proved to be anything less than entertaining.