'Stretch Armstrong' Lands Writer, Director

Universal Pictures has hired Nick Stoller to rewrite Stretch Armstrong and Rob Letterman to direct it. They teamed on Gulliver’s Travels and Letterman directed Monsters Vs. Aliens. Taylor Lautner stars, but no start date yet.  Imagine’s Brian Grazer is producing with Hasbro’s Bennett Schneir, with Kim Roth exec producing. Steve Oedekerk wrote the original draft. Stoller’s recent efforts at Universal includes directing Forgetting Sarah Marshall and script work on Get Him to the Greek.