Actor follows Owen Wilson, Mike Myers and Sacha Baron Cohen in list of stars linked to remake of 1947 comedy
Ben Stiller's next directing project will be a remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, says Twitch.
Stiller, who signed on to star in the film back in April, is the latest in a long list of stars linked to the project since producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr mooted the idea of a remake in 1994. Jim Carrey, Owen Wilson, Mike Myers and Sacha Baron Cohen were all rumoured to be involved before Stiller.
The original 1947 comedy, which was based on a short story by satirist James Thurber and starred Danny Kaye as Mitty, focused on a pulp-fiction writer who fantasises that he is the hero of his books. His dreams become reality when he meets Rosalind van Hoorn (Virginia Mayo), a character from the fictional world who is being pursued by a gang of jewel thieves. Boris Karloff played the gang's leader, a sinister psychiatrist who wants to get rid of Walter by "curing" him.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/20/ben-stiller-direct-walter-mitty
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