Dustin Hoffman is getting into the comedy act "Stranger Than Fiction," Variety reports. He will join Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson and Queen Latifah in this tale about an IRS auditor (Ferrell) who hears a narrator foretelling his death. With the help of a professor (Hoffman), he seeks to find this narrator and change his fate. Hoffman can now be seen in "Meet the Fockers" as Ben Stiller’s dad.