Jack Black Spoofing Jason Bourne

Say it ain't so. Jack Black is reportedly working with his Kung Fu Panda writers, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, on an action comedy inspired by The Bourne Identity. According to Reuters, we'll see "Black as an American who finds himself washed up on the shores of Cuba with no idea of who he is and how he got there. He comes to the conclusion that he must be a superspy, which is far from the truth." This could be good, except...haven't we all outgrown Jack Black? I'm not saying he's never been funny, just that, like Robin Williams, his comedy is kind of a moment in time, and that moment has probably passed. Yes, Kung Fu Panda was very good, and Black was in Tropic Thunder (although he hardly stole the show), but unless he's going to play this in some other way than I'm imagining - which is to say, not as a louder, more obnoxious slacker version of Inspector Clouseau - then I think they'd be better off with someone else. What's Will Arnett doing, for example? Aibel and Berger are striking while the iron's hot, though, because Panda was a big success and I fully expect Monsters vs. Aliens to do very well next spring. Let's hope they can tone him down a little in the script, somewhere east of King Kong but south of School or Rock and Tenacious D.