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Ben Stiller to Star in RentaGhost Film

Ben Stiller
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Ben Stiller
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Stage and screen veteran Ben Stiller will star in the film RentaGhost, according to Variety.


The script, to be written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, will be based on the 1970s BBC series, which focused on a recently-deceased man who establishes a company called RentaGhost , in which he rents out ghouls and ghosts to the living.


Stiller played the role of Artie Shaughnessy in the 2011 Broadway revival of John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves, as well as Ronnie Shaughnessy in the play’s 1986 Lincoln Center revival. He is best known for his film and television work, which includes A Night at the Museum, Meet the Parents, and Meet the Fockers. and will be seen opposite Eddie Murphy in the upcoming film Tower Heist.