“This version is aimed at an audience 10 years and up, and a bit scarier than the Disney film.”
Gris Grimly’s 2002 book spookily illustrating Carlo Collodi’s 1883 story about the puppet who wants to be a real boy will now be the basis of a film. Grimly is co-directing alongside stop motion legend Mark Gustafson, whose work you last saw in The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
From Deadline:
….Nick Cave has signed on to be music consultant and the puppets and 3D elements will be developed with MacKinnon and Saunders, the UK-based facility that worked onThe Fantastic Mr. Fox, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, and the upcoming Frankenweenie.
They are planning to make more terrifying a story which already scares me to pieces — I’ll have to have to work on becoming more courageous in time to see it when it comes out.
Tom Cruise is attached.
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1 fishgate // Mar 2, 2011 at 11:20 pm
this is going to be awesome!
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