Jack Black to Star in One of Gulliver's Travels

Jack Black will star in a new telling of Jonathan Swift's most famous work, Gulliver's Travels.

Variety reports that the story focuses on a single section of the 1726 novel "Lemuel Gulliver, a free-spirited travel writer who, on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of industrious, yet tiny, people."  We aren't talking Munchkinland tiny. If they follow the novel it'll have to be CG (yawn) tiny.

If successful, the film might bring the term "brobdingnagian" back into vogue, but could also lead to a renaissance of work by the 18th century satirist, including lesser known passages of Gulliver. The book belongs to the public domain, though it's said that in Swift's original contract he had retained rights for any and all derivative works pertaining to "theatrical, marionette, skulpture, happy meale toys and publick hangings."