Ben Stiller is set to star in Rentaghost in a role originally earmarked for Russell Brand.


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The film is to be based on the 1970s British children’s TV series of the same name, which featured ghouls who worked for a supernatural company called Rentaghost that hired out spirits for various tasks.

Rentaghost the movie is thought to see Stiller play a US consultant sent to the UK to help reinvigorate the failing firm, Deadline.com reports.

Stiller also appears in Tower Heist – released next month – and he is currently thought to be shooting comedy movie Neighborhood Watch with Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill.

He is also in line to direct and star in a remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which is based on a short story of the same name first published in 1939 in The New York magazine.