Baumbach and Stiller look at Penguins

Noah Baumbach and Ben Stiller just recently collaborated on the dramedy Greenberg with some what mixed results. The good must have outweighed the bad due to the fact that the two are batting around the notion of joining together on another film. In comes Mr. Popper’s Penguins, a children’s novel written by Richard and Florence Atwater, that recently got scooped up by Twentieth Century Fox in order to be created into a feature. Stiller is in the middle of talks to star in the film, but nothing is finalized at the moment.

“Mr. Popper” is the tale of a house painter whose dreams of Arctic exploration prompt him to write letters to real explorers. One of them sends him a penguin, which he keeps in an icebox. Soon, Mr. Popper receives a female penguin from a zoo and before he knows it, he has a litter of 12 beaked birds. When the penguins start to eat him out of house and home, Mr. Popper forms Popper’s Performing Penguins, a stage act that goes on tour and causes mayhem at every stop (Variety).

Stiller can next be seen in the third film of the Meet the Parents franchise Little Fockers on December 22nd.