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Little Rock Producer to Open The Box of Delights |
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From Ali Jaafar (April 6, 2009, Variety)
LONDON – Mike Newell will direct The Box of Delights based on John Masefield's classic 1930s children's novel about a boy entrusted with a magic box that allows him to travel through time.
Brit shingle Brilliant Films is funding development of the feature, which Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions) is adapting.
Little Rock’s Courtney Pledger, Sarah Radclyffe and Esther Douglas are attached to produce
with Brilliant Films' Joe Abrams and Rory Gilmartin receiving executive producer credits alongside Newell.
“I approached Mike with the idea of adapting his favorite childhood book to film,” Pledger said. “Then together we contacted the John Masefield estate for the film rights to the book.”
Newell is completing post-production on Prince of Persia and previously helmed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Box of Delights was adapted as a BBC TV skein in 1984 as well as an earlier radio play.
"I first heard Box of Delights as a radio play on the BBC when I was a boy," Newell said. "I was immediately seduced by the tingling, opening harp music and the fantastical, mysterious, magic story that followed."
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