MGM has acquired the rights to Robert C. O'Brien's children's novel "Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nimh" for a live action/CGI animation hybrid adaptation. Michael Berg (Ice Age 5) has been hired to write the screenplay, which will focus on an origin story involving an "imperiled mouse protagonist" who befriends a group of lab rats as they become "hyper-intelligent." ...
The novel, which was first published in 1971 and won the Newberry Medal a year later, was adapted into the 1982 animated feature The Secret of NIMH, with a voice cast that included Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Shannen Doherty and Wil Wheaton. The animated adaptation spawned the 1998 sequel The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue. MGM hopes to start a franchise with this new live action/CGI hybrid adaptation. Paramount previously tried to relaunch the franchise, but it never came to fruition. ...
Everybody is going back to musty library shelves to find themselves a (hoped-for) tent pole.
It almost feels like desperation time, reaching down to properties that didn't set the box office on fire thirty-plus years ago, but hey! Maybe this time it will be different!
If M-G-M still held the rights to Gone With The WInd, maybe they could rethink the movie as an animated property: Rhett Butler as a wolf, Scarlett as a fox, and Mammy as a tubby, hectoring badger. Get Robert Lopez and Kristen-Anderson Lopez to write a batch of songs, and you'll be all set.
h/t Chris Sobieniak.
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Steve, I think that you just get a new job at MGM with this animated Gone with the Wind pitch.
Wasn't the don bluth version bad enough? Maybe this time they'lol make the book. Or at least a film worth watching.
Thanks for the name drop!
If M-G-M still held the rights to Gone With The WInd, maybe they could rethink the movie as an animated property: Rhett Butler as a wolf, Scarlett as a fox, and Mammy as a tubby, hectoring badger. Get Robert Lopez and Kristen-Anderson Lopez to write a batch of songs, and you'll be all set.
As long as the wolf gets to say those immortal words ("Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!") I'm fine with this (if it worked for a rat before)!
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