Disney is planning a new live-action version of James and The Giant Peach, which may be directed by Sam Mendes (Skyfall, Spectre, Road to Perdition, American Beauty). Disney is in talks with Mendes to direct the project, as well as Nick Hornby to write the screenplay.
It has been 20 years since Disney released the animated version of the film, based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. The book was published in 1961 and “centered on 4-year-old James Henry Trotter, who lives in England with his loving parents until his parents are killed by a rhinoceros. He’s taken in by his two cruel aunts and leaves several years later thanks to an old man giving him magic crocodile tongues which produce a massive single peach — which contains human-like insects who befriend James.”
The 1996 version combined both live-action and stop-motion animation and was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi.
News source: Variety
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