Rosario Dawson is set to star with Kevin James in romantic comedy The Zookeeper.
The story, which is live action, is about zoo animals trying to teach the keeper their methods of dating and mating to help him win back the woman of his dreams.
Frank Coraci is set to direct from a screenplay by Jay Scherick and David Ronn, Kevin James, Rock Reuben and Nick Bakay. Filming will begin in late summer in Boston with a July 23, 2010, release date.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop star Kevin James is set to star in the title role in MGM’s The Zookeeper for director Frank Coraci.
Zookeeper is a tale of a lonely zookeeper who decides to leave his job because he can’t meet a girl, leading to intervention by the zoo’s animals.
Variety reported that James had always been his first choice for the role, particularly due to his ability to perform physical comedy.
Production is set to start hopefully this summer.
Actor Kevin James (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), while out doing press for his new comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop, confirmed that he is still actively developing a new comedy called The Zookeeper for MGM.
He said: “There’d been a draft of it and there’d been writers on it but we’re rewriting and working on it now, and I hope to have my fingerprints on it and bring what I can to it… I play a zookeeper-another guy in a uniform, no moustache in this one, we may go very bushy sideburns-I don’t even know, but it’s in the beginning stages of that.”
Scribes Jay Scherick and David Ronn are attached to the project.