EXCLUSIVE: Ben Stiller is in�talks with 20th Century Fox to play the title role in
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty after the previous script was finally dumped and a new approach and screenwriter was put on the project. That produced a reboot that Stiller wants�to make his next film. Stiller sparked to�the new take by Steve Conrad, writer of the Will Smith hit
The Pursuit of Happyness.�Now that Stiller is coming aboard, Fox will move quickly to lock in a cinematic director who can mix action with a PG rating, and get the picture ready for a late fall start. Stiller is repped by WME.
Mitty is�still based on�the 1947 Danny Kaye film from the James Thurber short story first published in
The New Yorker in 1939. The story of a perpetual daydreamer had been in development so long that it seemed like it might never be more than a daydream. Everyone from Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen�flirted with that previous script,�and directors who have circled include�Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Gore Verbinski.
Mitty's problems�stemmed from that script which�was never quite right.�But then Conrad started fresh and knocked it out of the park and Stiller, who has starred in the lucrative
Night at the Museum and
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