"Stretch Armstrong" gets director, new writer

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Stretch Armstrong" has wrapped itself around a director and a new writer.

Rob Letterman, who co-directed "Monsters vs. Aliens," has signed to direct Taylor Lautner in Universal's live-action 3D superhero adventure.

Nick Stoller, the writer-director behind the studio's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," is set to re-write Steve Oedekerk's original screenplay.

"Twilight" pinup Lautner will play the screen incarnation of the 1970s Kenner toy, a blond man whose arms and legs can stretch up to four feet.

Letterman will make his live-action debut in "Gulliver's Travels," an upcoming Fox comedy starring Jack Black. Stoller was a writer on "Gulliver's," and also wrote and directed Universal's upcoming Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Get Him to the Greek."