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Narnia's Peacock Penning $150 Million Airman

October 20, 2009

Screenwriter Ann Peacock (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe) will pen Airman for Disney and Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers, reports Variety.

Gil Kenan is directing and Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey are producing the $150 million motion-capture fantasy adventure through their ImageMovers.

Based on the book by Eoin Colfer, the swashbuckling scientific story centers on Conor Broekhart, a young man born in a hot air balloon to a family close to the king who has a penchant for looking to the skies for inspiration.

After his tutor and king are murdered, Broekhart spends two years in prison, escapes and must decide whether to should turn his back on those who abandoned him or fight those who plot to overthrow the government.

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COMMENTS (15)

Posted by:

dylansdad

October 20, 2009

Attack of the Motion Capture Zombies: Episode IX.

Posted by:

Jacob

October 20, 2009

oh great....
another film to waste zemeckis talent with motion-capturing.
this director is dead to me

Posted by:

Chaos

October 20, 2009

Zemeckis does a good job with motion-capture. But he really needs to take a break from it.

Would be nice to see him do live-action again.

Posted by:

nowammies

October 20, 2009

I've actually read this book and it's pretty good. As I read it, I always imagined it as a film, maybe not motion capture but still...could be interesting.

Posted by:

Jargon

October 20, 2009

'Twas an excellent children's book. I hope it's adapted well.

Posted by:

jadakiss

October 20, 2009

are you guys retarded? or you guys cant read? the movie is being directed by Gil Kenan. Zemeckis is only producing. idiots

Posted by:

joe asylo

October 20, 2009

sound interesting.

Posted by:

Peddy

October 20, 2009

How about instead of adapting this Eoin Colfer book, they get Artemis Fowl off the ground first?

Not to mention, why spend $150 million motion capturing something that's not a sure thing? Look how Beowulf turned out...

Posted by:

smoaT

October 20, 2009

Why does Zemeckis keeps insisting on producing motion capture??? It looks pretty weird, if not scary, besides if it's costing that much in motion capture why not doing it in live action??

Posted by:

amitiel

October 20, 2009

Does anyone really enjoy the motion capture films? Why is Zemeckis SO caught up in it? Despite the fact that they are nice to look at, the characters still come across as cold and flat (in terms of expression and affect). More traditional animation (including Pixar's stuff) is much better at rendering emotion.