HOLLYWOOD -- Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, John Ritter, Julie Hagerty, Christopher Reeve, Denholm Elliott and Mark Linn-Baker will star in Hollywood Pictures' film adaptation of "Noises Off," Michael Frayn's stage farce.

Director Peter Bogdanovich begins production in early spring, possibly in Santa Barbara, Calif., of the humorous behind-the-scenes tale of a bedraggled British theater company touring the provinces.