Source: Variety

Sony Pictures Entertainment has set Kevin James to star in Monster Hunter, a big-scale live-action family adventure being written by Robert L. Baird and Daniel Gerson, scripters of "Monsters, Inc." and "Curious George."

Overbrook Entertainment partners Will SmithWill Smith and James Lassiter will produce the pic, which is an outgrowth of the relationship they and the studio developed with James when he starred alongside Smith in the Overbrook-produced Columbia Pictures hit "Hitch," reports Variety.

James will play a child psychologist who can actually see the monsters that torment kids from closets and under beds. He uses that skill to vanquish the beasts until he meets a particularly nasty one.

The film will be the first big star vehicle for James when he completes his eighth and final season of the hit CBS sitcom "King of Queens."

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