'James Bond' Director May Direct A Live-Action 'James and the Giant Peach' Remake
Disney earlier this year attempted to tell Roald Dahl's BFG story in live action and it didn't go over well. Disney is going to tell another one of Dahl's classic tales on the big screen. One they have already told before.
Sam Mendes, the director of James Bond Skyfall and Spectre is currently in talks with Disney to direct a live-action version of James and the Giant Peach. Back in 1996, Disney released a stop-motion animation film by the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's another remake coming out of the Mouse House. This was the synopsis for Dahl's original story.
"When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes “the saddest and loneliest boy you could find.” Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally spills the crystals on his aunts’ withered peach tree, he sets the adventure in motion. From the old tree a single peach grows, and grows, and grows some more, until finally James climbs inside the giant fruit and rolls away from his despicable aunts to a whole new life. James befriends an assortment of hilarious characters, including Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider, and Centipede–each with his or her own song to sing."
Disney did take some creative licensing with the stop-motion animation film, although they did keep majority of the plot you read above. It will be interesting if Disney continues to adapt Roald Dahl's stories, while the studio continues its successful pattern of taking animated classics and turning them into live-action. I think James and the Giant Peach will be similar to The BFG using digitally created environments.
Sam Mendes has never done a Disney movie before. So it will be interesting to see how he adapts. James Trotter is a little different from James Bond.
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Source: SlashFilm
