Paramount has tapped Mark Waters (
Freaky Friday) to direct its remake of
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, according to Variety
Waters will direct from a script by Richard LaGravanese. The remake of 1947's "Walter Mitty," a comedy in which Danny Kaye played a timid man who daydreamed of being a swashbuckling hero. Original was based on a short story by humorist James Thurber.