Director Gore Verbinksi will follow up his billion-dollar Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy with an animated film with a budget estimated at $100 million to be written by John Logan (The Aviator, Sweeney Todd). The film is skedded for a 2010 release, and the title and plot details are unknown at this time. Verbinksi’s last PG film, as I’m assuming this flick will be rated G or PG, was 1997’s rather impressive Mouse Hunt.
The film is being produced by Graham King (Blood Diamond, The Departed, Next), and he gave some interesting details to Variety about a few of his other unrelated films. He’s currently adapting the graphic novel The Invention of Hugo Cabaret, “about a 12-year-old orphan living in a Paris train station in 1930 and embroiled in a mystery involving his father and a robot.” Martin Scorsese has been attached to direct it for a year now, and it seems that is still the case. King also said that the Johnny Depp-vehicle Shantaram is not dead, and he’s also still developing the Puerto Rico-set Hunter S. Thompson novel The Rum Diary, which Depp is also still attached to.
Discuss: Are you excited by this news? What did you want to see Verbinski do next?
February 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Sigh. Directors for animated films should be real animation directors…as in people who were trained in animation. I guarantee that any animator working on this film is going to go nuts.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Anything that Rossio and Elliot are a million miles away from.
Those pretentious hacks forever marred Verbinski’s filmmography. They took a franchise that had literally everything going for it, a world of potential, and flushed it.
Verbinski needs to comeback with a vengeance.
February 21st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I wanted him kinda for Prince of Persia… but that’s Mike Newell’s movie now
and regarding him directing an animated feature, hmm, it’s not that bad of an idea. He has been a compositor before (although again, it’s way different than being an animator) and after his recent speech at DICE regarding games, let’s see what’s gonna happen
February 21st, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Stay out of my sandbox!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 am
Oooo!! Sounds interesting. Can’t wait to hear more about the actual story.
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
This guy has the coolest name ever. And I liked The Weatherman.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
hi.i’ve read the book and i want to know when it’s coming out.i’m expecting that you’ve read the book.if you have not then why make the movie when you have no idea whatit’s even about.please leave me a comment back or email me thanks -kallie