Bone

Patrick Sean Smith to Adapt Comic BONE for Director P.J. Hogan; Kelly Masterson to Rewrite SNOW PIERCER

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: January 18th, 2012 at 8:02 pm

We last checked in with the feature adaptation of Jeff Smith‘s comic Bone in 2009, when producer Dan Lin explained his plans for the property.  There is some new movement on the project, as Greek creator Patrick Sean Smith has signed on to adapt the script, stepping in for Justin Monjo.  I love Greek for the mature, heartfelt treatment of its core characters.  Smith’s ambitions always exceeded the connotations of an ABC Family program, so I’m excited to see what he can do with a movie script.  The comic follows three Bone family cousins—”small, bald, and humanlike creatures with big noses”—who live with a girl and her grandmother in a valley that is menaced by the evil Lord of the Locusts.  P.J. Hogan (Confessions of a Shopaholic) will direct Bone.  Heat Vision implies that Hogan will polish the script, then head back home to Australia to direct.

Hit the jump for a synopsis of Bone, plus details on the new writer hired to help craft characters for Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, and Jamie Bell in Snow Piercer.

Exclusive: Producer Dan Lin on the Live Action/Animation TOM AND JERRY Movie and BONE by Jeff Smith

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: December 21st, 2009 at 10:14 pm

Over the past few days I’ve been posting “7 Days with Producer Dan Lin”.  As I explained in the previous articles, I spoke at length with the Sherlock Holmes producer about not only his latest film, but everything he has in development.  Since the conversation ran so long, I’ve decided to break up the interview into many smaller parts.  I’ve already posted what he said about the Lego movie and Gangster Squad, as well as his thoughts on the Terminator Salvation ending and what’s up with future movies.  For today’s article, I’ve got him talking about the Tom and Jerry movie and the animated Bone movie – which is based on the comic by Jeff Smith.

Regarding Tom and Jerry, Lin says it’s going to be live action/animation hybrid and he compared it what was done on Alvin and the Chipmunks and Scooby-Doo.  He also said it would be a “different tone, obviously” with “CGI creations of the cat and the mouse.”

On Bone, Lin said Justin Monjo is writing the script and they already did a test with Animalogic (who did Happy Feet and Guardians of Ga’Hoole). He went on to say “it really looks like a mix of Shrek as far as the three Bone characters and their comedy, their Looney Tunes or Marx Brothers comedy set in a Lord of the Rings world. We’ve met with several directors and we hope to come to a director decision by January and Jeff Smith has been very intricately involved in the development process with us.”

Much more after the jump:

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