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Emily Blunt, Jason Segel seek 'Travels'
Rob Letterman attached to direct Jack Black pic
By Borys Kit
Jan 29, 2009, 07:39 PM ET

Jason Segel is in negotiations and Emily Blunt has been offered to sign up for "Gulliver's Travels," Fox's Jack Black-starring modern re-imagining of Jonathan Swift's classic tale.

Rob Letterman is directing the story of free-spirited travel writer Lemuel Gulliver (Black), who on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of industrious yet tiny people.

Blunt would play the island's princess and the love interest of Horatio, Segel's character, a Lilliputian who befriends Gulliver.

Nicholas Stoller, who directed Segel in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," wrote the screenplay with Joe Stillman.

John Davis is producing with Black and his Electric Dynamite partner Ben Cooley.

Steve Asbell is overseeing project for Fox, and Brian Manis is overseeing for Davis.

Principal photography begins in March.

Segel, one of the stars of CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," next appears on the big screen with Paul Rudd in John Hamburg's "I Love You Man." He is repped by Endeavor and Abrams Entertainment.

The CAA-repped Blunt is in talks to play the Black Widow in "Iron Man 2." Dates are being worked out, and she could end up doing both big-budget projects.

marty888

Why does this news not fill me with anticipatory pleasure????

I'll stick with THE THREE WORLDS OF GULLIVER and the terrific TV movie with Ted Danson.

Sean O'Hara

Who wants to bet that at some point there will be a joke where Black fights off Lilliputians with flatulence?

Save Ferris

Everyone I know who saw this bomb argues that surely the classic book this movie is based on, there was no peeing on a castle.

Actually, he did.

Reviewers: You're making yourselves sound stupid. The book also talks about how there was a lilliputian who had the terrible job of carting off Gullivers shit.

The movie may be bad but not for this reason. Carry on.

Matthew Chmiel

Reviewers read books?

SURELY, YOU JEST!

[For those who have actually read Jonathan Swift, he was quite the "inappropriate" writer of his time. A Modest Proposal anyone?]

Save Ferris

Not to mention later in the book when the giant ladies bounce him on their boobs.

Maybe this was made for Jack Black type comedy all these years after all...

SkinJob

Faithful or not, this thing now looks like it's getting even worse reviews than Little Fockers. Didn't think that would be possible so soon but Hollywood has surprised me time and again.

islandclaws

I watched this the other night. I wish I could unsee what I have seen. I don't care what he did in the books, it didn't translate well to film. Have these people had regular humans there before? There seemed to be an awful lot of existing infrastructure and contraptions customer-fitted for him in a short amount of time. And what was up with all the ads and film spoofs? Does Lilliput have a film industry? I wanted to claw my eyes out.