Paramount Readies New NIMH Feature
Paramount is developing a new feature based on the children's book MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
Best known in the movie world as the MGM 1982 animated film THE SECRET OF NIMH from director Don Bluth, the story would likely get a live-action/animation treatment similar to ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, G-FORCE and other hybrids.
THE ILLUSIONIST director Neil Burger is in talks to pen the screenplay and former Walden Media exec Cary Granat will produce.
O'Brien won the Newbery Medal in 1972 for his book, which is about a mouse, Mrs. Frisby, who is faced with a crisis when her son falls ill and she must move her family's home out of the way of a farmer's plow.
Granat produced films at Walden including JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EART and exec produced the first SPY KIDS feature.
Best known in the movie world as the MGM 1982 animated film THE SECRET OF NIMH from director Don Bluth, the story would likely get a live-action/animation treatment similar to ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, G-FORCE and other hybrids.
THE ILLUSIONIST director Neil Burger is in talks to pen the screenplay and former Walden Media exec Cary Granat will produce.
O'Brien won the Newbery Medal in 1972 for his book, which is about a mouse, Mrs. Frisby, who is faced with a crisis when her son falls ill and she must move her family's home out of the way of a farmer's plow.
Granat produced films at Walden including JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EART and exec produced the first SPY KIDS feature.
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