JACK Black, Hollywood's new golden boy of comedy movies, has his eye set on something big. Or small depending on your point of view.

That's because he will be starring in an updated version of the classic Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels ¿ a film in which he discovers Lilliput just off the coast of Bermuda.

The updated version has Black playing Lemuel Gulliver, who is a travel writer on assignment in Bermuda writing about the Bermuda Triangle.

Somehow mayhem ensues and Black's character will find himself washed up on the shore of a mysterious island of Lilliput where he is seen as a giant by the native Lilliputians who are just six inches tall.

Gulliver's Travels was first published in 1726 and is actually a shortened name of the original book name, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.

There have been a number of Hollywood versions of the book. Most recently Ted Danson played Gulliver in the 1996 TV movie that won five primetime Emmy Awards.

Black starred in this summer's blockbuster Tropic Thunder and has also appeared in such films as High Fidelity, Nacho Libre, Kung Fu Panda, The Holiday, King Kong and School of Rock. The new film will be directed by Rob Letterman, who directed the animated feature Shark Tale.

It will be produced by Jack Black's production company Electric Dynamite and will be written by Joe Stillman, writer of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and Shrek, and Nicholas Stroller, writer of Fun with Dick and Jane.

There is no word yet on whether any location footage will actually be shot in Bermuda or whether the scenes meant to be taking place on the island will be filmed on a Hollywood soundstage.

The film will be shot next year and released in theatres in 2010.