Paramount Set for Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Neil Burger (The Illusionist) is in talks to write the screenplay, and former Walden exec Cary Granat is on board to produce.
This film would be the second theatrical go-round for the book, which MGM brought to the screen in 1982 as the animated The Secret of NIMH, directed by Don Bluth.
Robert C. O'Brien's "Rats of NIMH" won the Newbery Medal in 1972 and has been a staple in children's bookstores and libraries since. The story centers on a mouse -- the titular Mrs. Frisby, re-named Mrs. Brisby in the MGM movie -- faced with a crisis when her son falls ill and she must move her family to escape a farmer's plow.
Mrs. Frisby enlists a group of former lab rats, whom she soon discovers run a highly evolved society, who possess advanced technologies and divide labor in the manner of a human community.
It's likely the new "NIMH" would combine live-action and animation in the manner of Alvin and the Chipmunks and other kiddie hybrids.
Sources: The Hollywood Reporter
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IndyFan117
don't you think we had enough remakes for one year?. That's fine with me, if someone like more remakes i'm in.
PS i am a fan of this movie so i say a remake will be fine... although there are rumours of a remake of Short Circuit.
3 years agoby @adamjanawayFlag
Diaigma
Wait, wait wait. Another/New NIMH, when there is a perfectly good rodent tail that has yet to be made into a feature film (Redwall). WHAT THE DEUCE! :P
3 years agoby @diaigmaFlag
CelluloidDreams
WOW!! I love "The Secret of NIMH"!! I'm open!!
3 years agoby @2movieguysFlag
Moviemaniack1993
I hope that it is a DIRECT adaptation from the novel. It is one of my favorite books. And the Don Bluth cartoon was good, but was missing so much!
3 years agoby @moviemaniack1993Flag
...YeahButTheBookWasBetter
Its a good story, i wouldnt mind a remake just so people know what im talking about when i bring it up.
3 years agoby @theboywhocriedsequelFlag