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'Mouse Guard' movie announced (Producer: Matt Reeves | Screenplay: Gary Whitta)

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https://twitter.com/mouseguard/status/755155626259390464

I'm thrilled to have Mouse Guard set up at Fox and in great hands with @garywhitta & @mattreevesLA #MouseGuardMovie
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https://twitter.com/garywhitta/status/755153585973755905

NEWS! So, SO excited to be adapting MOUSE GUARD as a live-action CG feature film for Fox & producer @mattreevesLA!
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/matt-reeves-gary-whitta-adapt-912076

Twentieth Century Fox has optioned the best-selling work by David Petersen that will be penned by Whitta, the screenwriter of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Reeves, the director of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Cloverfield, will produce the adaptation via his 6th & Idaho banner, along with Mouse Guard publisher Boom! Studios' Ross Richie and Stephen Christy. Reeves is not intending to direct the project.

The studio is looking to make a live-action movie utilizing the performance capture technology pioneered for Fox’s acclaimed Apes franchise as well as technology used by Disney’s live-action animal tale The Jungle Book to bring the Mouse Guard world to vivid life.

Created, written, and illustrated by Petersen, Mouse Guard is tells of anthropomorphic mice set in medieval times, focusing on a brotherhood of mice that is sworn to protect the common folk. Or rodent, as it were.

The series, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary and hails from Boom!’s imprint Achaia, has almost one million copies in print and has been translated into 10 languages. It is considered one of the most successful independent comic book franchises of the last decade, with three volumes of the main series, three volumes of a spinoff series Mouse Guard: Legend of the Guard, and a Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game published. A new series titled Mouse Guard: The Weasel Wars is expected to launch next year.

Adam Kassan will executive produce for 6th & Idaho, and Boom!'s Adam Yoelin and David Petersen will co-produce.

Boom! is prepping its first production, The Empty Man, which will star James Badge Dale and is due to begin shooting in August. The company, which enjoys perhaps the largest IP library outside of Marvel and DC, also has adaptations of its hit comics Lumberjanes and James Wan’s Malignant Man in development at Fox.

Whitta, who counts the Denzel Washington thriller The Book of Eli amongst his credits, is repped by UTA, Circle of Confusion, and Behr & Abramson. Reeves is repped by CAA, 3 Arts, and Jackoway Tyerman. Boom! is repped by Matt Saver.
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Some of the art for the uninitiated.

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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
I think I would have preferred a Redwall movie.

Edit: Simply because I devoured those books as a kid. I'm totally unfamiliar with the source material for this movie.
 
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StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
Love me some Mouse Guard.

That said, the artwork makes the comic... so it'll depend on what they do there.

Also, I guess Fox didn't read that stone cold email from Sony about their writer.

Fuck this shit. Realistic live-action like Apes? GTFO
 
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_illmatic_

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I haven't read an issue yet, but I've loved all the panels I've seen on Comixology. I need to grab a vol and read it soon. Love, love, love, love the art style.
 
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GuitarAtomik

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Never read this. Does it really have enough human stuff in it to justify live action? Seems like it would be a better fit to go straight CG from the art posted.
 
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StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
GuitarAtomik said:
Never read this. Does it really have enough human stuff in it to justify live action? Seems like it would be a better fit to go straight CG from the art posted.
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There is absolutely no human stuff. Unless something went weird as shit off the rails in the last book that I haven't read yet.
 
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captjohnboyd

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Never heard of this comic but that art is beautiful. Will definitely be checking it out now. Also I'm down for basically anything Reeves does. Isn't he working on another Apes flick right now though?
 
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K.Jack

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StoOgE said:
Love me some Mouse Guard.

That said, the artwork makes the comic... so it'll depend on what they do there.

Also, I guess Fox didn't read that stone cold email from Sony about their writer.

Fuck this shit. Realistic live-action like Apes? GTFO
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What's this about yo?
 
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NYCmetsfan

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K.Jack said:
What's this about yo?
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams’s continuation of the Star Wars story, will hit theaters late next year, and there are several other planned Star Wars films by Rian Johnson (Looper), Gareth Edwards (Godzilla), and Josh Trank (Chronicle). An email dated September 20, 2014, from Michael De Luca, President of Production for Columbia Pictures, to Amy Pascal discusses the plans for Disney’s upcoming Star wars films—and may have spilled some interesting new details.

“Star Wars: Any studio would have lost josh trank and rian Johnson to this, it's freaking Star Wars. Your After Earth writer Gary Whitta is writing Gareth Edwards stand alone Star Wars film. Simon Kinberg is writing Josh Tranks. No one knows what they're about but Boba Fett is rumored to be the subject of one. Rian Johnson as you know is doing the main ones, episodes 8 and 9 of the Luke and Leia story lines, after JJ. Not sure anything is gained by looking at what Lucasfilm is doing except we are stalking all these people too, except Whitta whom I think blows.”
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Keasar

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I do wonder what style of movie they will go with, the art style is partly what makes the comic.

Apart from that:
FUCK YEAH MORE MOUSE GUARD!
 
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FaustsBoon

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I like how this and Rat Queens are both in development (that's been announced, right? If not, ooops). What a fun time for this sub-genre.
 
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ElFly

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Goddamnit.

I bought my nephews these books over the years and they love them.

Now it gets made into a live action movie and bam, Gary Whitta grabs it.

I guess it could be worse.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
ElFly said:
Goddamnit.

I bought my nephews these books over the years and they love them.

Now it gets made into a live action movie and bam, Gary Whitta grabs it.

I guess it could be worse.
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Orci and Kurtzman could be writing and Michael Bay directing.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
What did he mean by this? said:
Its all implied! Those huge books had a lot of lines to read between.
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If you wanted porn in Redwall just read some of Brian Jacques huge detailed descriptions of damn near every meal the characters ate. Sometimes I wonder if the guy wanted to write a story about scones and pastries and drop the whole talking animal thing. Dude was more into food than Jason Biggs was balls deep in that pie.
 
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harSon

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I saw the art and got excited about a Redwall adaptation. This isn't a Redwall adaptation. I'm no longer excited.
 
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see5harp

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The art is a big part of the appeal to me. I guess I'll have to see what the finished CGI looks like. I personally think using a stop motion style like Fantastic Mr. Fox would be more appropriate but who knows.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Arkeband said:
Stoats are jobbers.

Squirrels are born with hacked stats, and Badgers have like ten final forms.

Mice have 99 Luck stat.

Moles loikem strawbees burr aye
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Remember the original Redwall story where their were full size horses and it kind of felt like everything was built and designed for humans and the mice and other animals were just living there. Always a bit weird they just dropped that entirely from later stories.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Live-action performance capture? That makes little sense for this in contrast to pure animation. That reeks of a non-creative decision because execs want that Jungle Book money.
 
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