Dustin Hoffman is set to join the cast of director Marc Forster's
Stranger Than Fiction, says the Hollywood Reporter.
Hoffman joins a comedy's cast including Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson and Queen Latifah.
The feature tells the story of an IRS auditor (Ferrell) who inexplicably finds himself the subject of a narrator only he can hear, who tells him that events have been set in motion that will lead to his imminent death.
Hoffman will play a professor who helps the auditor in his attempts to find the narrator and to change his story before it's too late.