I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the majority of people floating around this site have never heard of the 1964 Don Knotts classic (three words I hadn't intended to put next to each other today, I might add) The Incredible Mr. Limpet. It's a movie about a lovable loser who somehow, some way turns into a cartoon fish. Then he fights Nazis. No, I'm ****ing serious.
So, all that said, of COURSE there is a remake of this drug-addled absurdity in the works, and according to the LA Times, Zach Galifianakis is in talks to start in the Don Knotts role.
Sources say that producers are talking to Zach Galifianakis to take on the title role. Talks are still ongoing, but if it all works out, Galifianakis will be called upon to bring his brand of weirdo comedy to a character on which Knotts brushed his trademark paint of wide-eyed wacko: a man who, after transforming into a fish, leaves his old life behind to disrupt U-boat maneuvers on the high seas (and finds true love in the process).
(There had been early talk that Johnny Depp may take on the part, but that seems to be motivated more by the actor's involvement in a different spectacle-driven nautical film; he's not likely to star in this one.)
Zach Galifianakis Would Like to Fight Nazis as Cartoon Fish - Screened
Here's a video of the old movie:
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