Is this year’s Smurfs film not providing you with an adequate fill of childhood nostalgia? Well then fear not, because the people over at Twentieth Century Fox Animation are teaming up with producer Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) to give you Mr. Men – the movie!
With news breaking that the studio has plans to bring Roger Hargreaves’ classic characters to the big screen, the main question is which ones will they choose? Hargreaves wrote no less than forty eight Mr. Men books, each featuring a new character with their own unique trait. With the first six titles published in 1971, favourites included Mr. Tickle, Mr. Happy, Mr. Greedy and the ever unfortunate Mr. Bump. The series has gone on to sell in 28 countries, shifting more than 100 million copies.
Yet this won’t be the first time Hargreaves’ creations have been seen in motion. The Mr. Men books have been adapted into four animated television series over the years, with the most recent – Renegade Animation’s The Mr. Men Show – airing on Cartoon Network (US) and Channel Five (UK) in 2008.
With the studio’s latest project, Rio (featuring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway), due to hit screens soon, it’s not yet clear how Fox Animation will handle the project. In a world where CGI and 3D reign supreme, should we expect to see these old characters from a whole new angle? Good idea or bad, you know Mr. Messy would look amazing.
Source: THR
