Jim Carrey Inherting Flock Of Penguins

Actor Jim Carrey has joined the feature film project “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” in the starring role. The film is an adaptation of a popular children’s book from 1938 and is setup at Fox studios.

Carrey landed the role after a long search for a star that saw other leading actors including Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Owen Wilson circling the project at one point. In the updated version of the story, Carrey plays a businessman living in New York who inherits a flock of penguins that proceed to cause endless problems in his life.