Greenberg writer/director Noah Baumbach and star Ben Stiller are in talks to re-team on an adaptation of the 1938 children's novel "Mr. Popper's Penguins," says Variety. Richard & Florence Atwater wrote the book which follows a house painter with dreams of exploring the Arctic. Gifts from a real explorer and the zoo soon lead to him becoming the owner of a litter of a dozen penguins.
He forms them into a stage act and takes them on tour, where they proceed to cause mayhem at each stop.
Sean Anders and John Morris, ("Sex Drive") are writing the script adaptation.
John Davis is producing the pic
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