It’s surprising that no studio has snapped up the rights to The Stuff Of Legend before, as it sounds the sort of thing Hollywood would be all over. However now Disney has signed on to adapt the graphic novel as a live-action/CG film, with Pete Candeland attached to write the screenplay, according to Deadline.
Written by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith and illustrated by Charles Paul Wilson III, The Stuff of Legend graphic novels depict an epic battle between the Boogeyman and a boy’s beloved toys, with some describing is at a kind of darker version Toy Story, but with Narnia-type element. In the tale, The Boogeyman lurches out of his Dark Realm into 1944 Brooklyn, lurching from a boy’s closet and dragging him by his ankles into his twisted kingdom.
From there, the boy’s toys decide to mount a rescue mission, but as they cross the border of the Dark Realm, they are transformed from cuddly playthings to full-sized beings with functioning weaponry, like guns for the cowboys and soldier, swords for the knights, and ferocious teeth and claws for the teddy bear.
It could certainly make a great movie, which sounds like it could have a touch of Labyrinth about it.
In the last couple of weeks, most of the speculation for new actors joining The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has surrounded the role of the handsome Finnick Odair, but there are other new characters to be cast as well. One of the more interesting is Plutarch Heavensbee, the new head of The Hunger Games (after the previous one was executed).
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Idina Menzel is a huge name on the Broadway stage, but she’s never made as much of an impact on screen, despite popping up in the likes of Rent, Enchanted and playing Rachel’s birth mother in Glee. However now her voice will be getting a major outing in Disney’s Frozen, which is inspired by the fairytale The Snow Queen.