Chris O’Dowd – the roguish and mostly incompetent Roy in the brilliant sitcom, **The IT Crowd **– has just bagged his biggest movie role to date. Although, in a way, it’s also his smallest.
The Irish actor has joined the cast of Jack Black’s FX-heavy comedy, Gulliver’s Travels, about a travel writer who is transported to the island of Liliput while on an assignment in the Bermuda Triangle. As you might have guessed, it’s a modern update of Jonathan Swift’s classic novel.
O’Dowd will play Edward, Gulliver’s thumb-sized Liliputian nemesis in the movie, which is already shooting in London. We’re guessing that the nature of his interaction with Gulliver means that O’Dowd won’t actually share any screentime with Black, but it’ll be good exposure nevertheless for a very funny actor.
O’Dowd joins the likes of Jason Segel, Emily Blunt and Amanda Peet in the Fox movie, which is directed by Monsters Vs. Aliens’ director, Rob Letterman.