The actor Ben Stiller and the director Noah Baumbach, who recently worked together for the movie Greenberg, could remake team for Mr. Popper's Penguins.
Baumbach, which also carried out the films Margot at the Wedding and The Squid and the Whale, is in talks with 20th Century Fox to direct the actor in this adaptation of a children book originally published in 1938. Stiller is also in talks; no agreement was still concluded.
John Davis will produce the project via the company Davis Entertainment.
Mr. Popper's Penguins will be the first children film directed by Baumbach. The scenario writer has however co-written the scenario for Fantastic Mr. Fox with Wes Anderson.
20th Century Fox acquired the rights for the film adaptation of the book last year. The scenario writer Sean Anders and John Morris adapted the story.
Mr. Popper's Penguins will tell the story of a house painter whose dream to explore the polar zones will lead him to write to true researchers. One of those will send a penguin to him which he will preserve in a refrigerator. Then, Mr. Popper will receive a female from a zoo and from day to, he will be found with 12 chicks. With the problem to nourish all this brood, Mr. Popper will form a troop of erudite penguins and will leave for a tour with them. The latter will sow however chaos at each stop.
Richard and Florence Atwater wrote the book which gained the Newbery price in 1939.
Ben Stiller will also be seen next December in the comedy Little Fockers.
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