Academy
Award winning director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) is in talks
to helm a live-action adaptation of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant
Peach for The Walt Disney Studios.
Two-time
Academy Award nominated screenwriter Nick Hornby (“Brooklyn,” “An
Education”) is attached to write the screenplay.
The
property was adapted in 1996 by Henry Selick (“Coraline”) into a stop-motion feature animation for The Walt Disney
Animation.
James
and the Giant Peach centers on an orphan boy who escapes his two mean
aunts into a world inhabited by a anthropomorphic insects, including
a spider, a ladybug, a centipede, and an Earthworm, who live inside a
peach, and together they journey through New York City.
James
and the Giant Peach is the latest project in Disney's plan to redo
some of their older properties. The studio has already revamped
Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, The Jungle Book, and
Pete's Dragon, and they will be bringing new takes on The Little
Mermaid with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cruella with Emma Stone starring,
Dumbo with Tim Burton directing, Beauty and the Beast with Emma
Watson set to star, and Peter Pan with Pete's Dragon director David
Lowery attached to helm.
Source
- Deadline
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