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07Dec2009

'Nutcracker' To Become An Action Movie

DateMonday, December 7, 2009 at 1:23AM
It was weird enough to hear that there would be a movie based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the story most commonly associated with Tchaikovsky's symphony. But try this on for size: It's going to be an action movie. Huh?

The Hollywood Repoter says New Line bought a pitch from writer Darren Lemke to turn the story into an action-adventure, and the initial rumor was that Robert Zemeckis would make this his next motion-capture movie (or maybe it would follow the remake of Yellow Submarine. There's no mention of Zemeckis in this new report, however.

Lemke, who had a hand in the fourth Shrek, has wrapped up work on an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, which, being public domain, can be turned into just about anything you want it to. That update led to his arrival at The Nutcracker. "I like the classic stories, but only if you can find a way to embrace them, without betraying them, and tell the tale with a forward thrust, making them feel modern," Lemke said.

In this case that means the story of a 12-year-old girl who receives a Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve, and that night, all sorts of hell breaks loose, including "a war involving a seven-headed Mouse King and his army of mice, curses and themes of ugliness and beauty."

I guess the action-adventure thing can kind of work with that set-up, although it's a far cry from what we probably expected to get out of it. What will New Line's timetable be, I wonder? Should we look for this in a couple years, or will it take a while to put all of this together.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

This is really going to be a big hit if Nutcracker is becoming a concept of action movie or action games. Now I can`t wait so much to have a look of that.
Nice post..

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterfay

Nice one..
I agreed and I also like the classic stories, but only if you can find a way to embrace them, without betraying them, and tell the tale with a forward thrust, making them feel modern.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | Unregistered Commentersuzanne

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