Newell's Next to be a 'Box of Delights'
From a video game adaptation to a children's book
Mike Newell has been directing films since the 1960s yet his name is primarily known by today's movie going audience as the director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Then again, maybe it is films that live on in the memories of most more than the name considering he directed the likes of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco and the Oscar-nominated Enchanted April which is seeing a special edition release in May. Up next for the helmer is the sword and sandal epic Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time based on the video game starring Jake Gyllenhaal and due in theaters on May 28, 2010, but Variety brings word of his follow-up feature based on a 1930s children's novel.
Newell is set to direct The Box of Delights based on John Masefield's novel about a boy entrusted with a magic box that allows him to travel through time. Frank Cottrell Boyce who wrote Millions for Danny Boyle (a film I still need to see) is adapting the novel for the screen.
The director was quoted by Variety saying, "I first heard 'Box of Delights' as a radio play on the BBC when I was a boy," Newell said. "I was immediately seduced by the tingling, opening harp music and the fantastical, mysterious, magic story that followed."
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Even though i'm a big fan of the game I'm not the least bit interested in 'Prince of Persia' after watching the sorry excuse of a vid game adaptation that was Max Payne … after watching promos of Max Payne i was certain that it would be a great adaptation, sadly it sucked… and POP will be the same. I just hope it doesn't take itself too seriously the way Payne did.
Anyways the fact that Frank Cottrell Boyce is penning Box of delghts is very interesting … 'Millions' was exquisite!
PS: I forgot to mention that I officially hate Mike Newell now for assaulting and raping the 'Goblet of Fire' novel and making the worst possible movie version of it.
DEFINITELY SEE "MILLIONS!"
I was a Danny Boyle fan years before "Slumdog Millionaire" came out. Either "Millions" or "28 Days Later" really got me hooked on the director. "Sunshine" and "Trainspotting" were also fantastic. But I'd say "Millions" is his 2nd-best after "28 Days Later." (I'd put "Slumdog" behind the two of them).