Swiss Family & Jungle Cruise Move Forward
Source: Variety
December 13, 2004
Disney-based Mandeville Films (The gy Dog) Swiss Family Robinson to start next Summer and a feature version of Disneyland theme park ride Jungle Cruise, reports Variety.
The company is also expected to start production in February on Antarctica, a Frank Marshall-directed remake of the 1983 Japanese film.
For the new Swiss Family Robinson version, Mandeville tried for a long time to find the right take and eventually sparked to the idea of keeping the 1800s period setting of the Johann David Wyss book. Greg Poirier then wrote a first draft about the shipwrecked Swiss settler family and the studio set a start date.
Mandeville's David Hoberman describes Jungle Cruise as "an adventure film with comedic elements, but its core is almost a family version of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness,' about a group that travels upriver, in search of a significant cure." Josh Goldstein and John Norville (Tin Cup) will write the script.
Hoberman is also finally going into production on Antarctica after a previous false start. The project was shelved that time because there wasn't enough snow at the film's intended location by the time production was to begin, and last-minute alternatives would have made the film too expensive. Marshall is putting together his cast for a February 22 start.
Source: Variety
December 13, 2004
Disney-based Mandeville Films (The gy Dog) Swiss Family Robinson to start next Summer and a feature version of Disneyland theme park ride Jungle Cruise, reports Variety.
The company is also expected to start production in February on Antarctica, a Frank Marshall-directed remake of the 1983 Japanese film.
For the new Swiss Family Robinson version, Mandeville tried for a long time to find the right take and eventually sparked to the idea of keeping the 1800s period setting of the Johann David Wyss book. Greg Poirier then wrote a first draft about the shipwrecked Swiss settler family and the studio set a start date.
Mandeville's David Hoberman describes Jungle Cruise as "an adventure film with comedic elements, but its core is almost a family version of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness,' about a group that travels upriver, in search of a significant cure." Josh Goldstein and John Norville (Tin Cup) will write the script.
Hoberman is also finally going into production on Antarctica after a previous false start. The project was shelved that time because there wasn't enough snow at the film's intended location by the time production was to begin, and last-minute alternatives would have made the film too expensive. Marshall is putting together his cast for a February 22 start.
