Variety reports that Jim Carrey and Tim Burton will collaborate on Paramount’s action-adventure flick about the life of reporter, globe-trotter, and weird-stuff cataloger Robert Ripley.
"Jim Carrey will topline and Tim Burton will helm Paramount’s action-adventure pic based on the exploits of Robert Ripley, the explorer and newspaper columnist who created "Ripley’s Believe It or Not."
New project picks up Ripley at a time when he has attained celebrity status through a "Believe It or Not" column that chronicled his search for the greatest oddities on the planet. Along the way, he learns to appreciate his unusual human discoveries as more than mere conquests to be catalogued.
"It is a great fit for both Jim and Tim, because it is a visual action-adventure setting, but a character with emotion, humanity and comedic sensibilities, all qualities Jim is best at," Paramount’s co-prez Brad Weston said.
Studio expects to begin production on the tentpole in London in October for a late 2007 release."
