Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has been set to write the screenplay for The Wind in the Willows, a feature adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic English tale. Ray Griggs is aboard to to direct the project, which will be shot at Peter Jackson’s Stone Street Studios in Wellington, New Zealand.
Jackson’s Weta Digital is handling the CGI to bring Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger to life, with Skywalker Sound designing all sound effects and ambient noise. Production is set to begin this year; casting is underway.
Fellowes wrote the book for a Wind in the Willows musical with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe — the trio had collaborated on the long-running Mary Poppins musical on Broadway. Their Wind in the Willows bowed in 2016 and eventually played on London’s West End.
Gerald R. Molen, who won the Oscar in 1994 for producing Schindler’s List, is...
Jackson’s Weta Digital is handling the CGI to bring Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger to life, with Skywalker Sound designing all sound effects and ambient noise. Production is set to begin this year; casting is underway.
Fellowes wrote the book for a Wind in the Willows musical with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe — the trio had collaborated on the long-running Mary Poppins musical on Broadway. Their Wind in the Willows bowed in 2016 and eventually played on London’s West End.
Gerald R. Molen, who won the Oscar in 1994 for producing Schindler’s List, is...
- 2/6/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Julian Fellowes, the writer and creator of “Downton Abbey,“ has teamed up with producer Gerald R. Molen on a big-screen production of the classic children’s novel “The Wind in the Willows.”
Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital is on board for the CGI for the four main characters — Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger — who live by a river in Edwardian England, in the Kenneth Grahame novel. The project comes four years after a musical version of “The Wind in the Willows“ premiered in the U.K., with Fellowes having written the script, with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.
Molen, who won an Academy Award with Steven Spielberg for producing “Schindler’s List,” has hired Ray Griggs and Richard Taylor at Weta Workshop, in coordination with Jackson’s Weta Digital.
Filming will take place at Jackson’s Stone Street Studios in New Zealand, while Skywalker Sound will design...
Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital is on board for the CGI for the four main characters — Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger — who live by a river in Edwardian England, in the Kenneth Grahame novel. The project comes four years after a musical version of “The Wind in the Willows“ premiered in the U.K., with Fellowes having written the script, with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.
Molen, who won an Academy Award with Steven Spielberg for producing “Schindler’s List,” has hired Ray Griggs and Richard Taylor at Weta Workshop, in coordination with Jackson’s Weta Digital.
Filming will take place at Jackson’s Stone Street Studios in New Zealand, while Skywalker Sound will design...
- 2/6/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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