Actor Jason Segel is in negotiations to co-star in Jack Black-fronting film, Gulliver’s Travels, Fox’s modern re-imagining of Jonathan Swift’s classic tale.
Actress Emily Blunt has been offered a large part in the film as well, but there is no word on the progress that is making.
Filmmaker Rob Letterman, who has written and directed Shark Tale and the upcoming Monsters vs. Aliens, is directing the famous story about a travel writer named Lemuel Gulliver (Black), who was on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle and ends up being washed upon the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of hardworking, thumb-sized people.
Blunt would reportedly play the island’s princess and the love interest of Segel’s character Horatio, an island man who befriends Gulliver.
Nicholas Stoller of Forgetting Sarah Marshall fame wrote the screenplay alongside Joe Stillman, the mind behind the Shrek series.
Production of the film will begin in March of this year.
Both Segel and Blunt are in talks for other projects. Segel, who is one of the stars of CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother,” is co-starring alongside Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man, which is set for its theatrical debut in March 2009. Blunt is currently in talks to play the Black Widow in Iron Man 2.
