Sam Mendes taking on live-action 'James and the Giant Peach'?

[Sawyer]

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This is the second Roald Dahl project Mendes has been involved in after the stage production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. For some reason I can't picture it. But it does have my attention.

 

[Kyle]

I don't know how it can beat the classic one I grew up with.

 

[harryoscop]

I thought the original was live action?

 

[Schlosser85]

I thought the original was live action?

It's a combination of live action and animation.

 

[Sawyer]

The thing about even labelling something like this or The Jungle Book "live action".... like, okay, the main character will be live action. Everything else? Still animated, just in a different way.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

Loved the book growing up. My second favorite Dahl story right after CATCF.

 

[Drizzle]

I liked the original film, but it's not like it's some sacred film that shouldn't be touched. There's room for improvement there (a robot shark, really?). While this has always been one of my favorite Dahl books, I'm not liking that we're seeing remakes of movies adapted from his works before a movie adaptation of "The Twits". That's one of his more outrageous stories and it's a shame it hasn't been done yet.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The thing about even labelling something like this or The Jungle Book "live action".... like, okay, the main character will be live action. Everything else? Still animated, just in a different way.

Not so fast, I think Monsanto is 5 years away from commercializing its gigantic peach patent, and as for the rest, I remember there was a live action movie a while back about a human-sized centipede or something like that. I never saw it, but I'm sure they could use the same concept to really bring this story to life for the children.

 

[Kyle]

The centipede has to be a heck of a lot more cartoony than a real centipede or for some it'll be scarier than the Rhino lol.

I will say that I would feel a heck of a lot safer if Tim Burton was making this. He just has the perfect tone and approach to bring this to life. The movie was creepy and weird and surreal in a fun way, unsure if that is something Mendes can do... Think less Burton's Alice and more his other movies.

 

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Considering The BFG performed poorly I'm surprised Disney is considering another Dahl-adaptation. I mean , it's not like Disney is lacking in money-making movies/franchises at the moment

 

[Alien Anal]

The centipede has to be a heck of a lot more cartoony than a real centipede or for some it'll be scarier than the Rhino lol.

I will say that I would feel a heck of a lot safer if Tim Burton was making this. He just has the perfect tone and approach to bring this to life. The movie was creepy and weird and surreal in a fun way, unsure if that is something Mendes can do... Think less Burton's Alice and more his other movies.

Is Burton still capable of doing his other stuff. The last Burton film I enjoyed was Big Fish.

 

[Kyle]

Is Burton still capable of doing his other stuff. The last Burton film I enjoyed was Big Fish.

Home of Peculiars looks like a hopeful return to form. Then in animation Frankenweenie was amazing.

Part of my uncertainty with Mendes is he seems more straight forward, while this requires a more haunting yet fun approach which isn't really a style he seems to play in.

 

[Lencho01]

Hmm...

 

[terry78]

The stop motion one was awesome.

 

[chamber-music]

I'm still waiting for Disney to adapt Roald Dahl's The Twits into a movie.

We have had The BFG, Matilda, James and The Giant Peach, The Witches, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox and Danny The Champion Of The World and Esio Trot all turned into movies.

 

[Drizzle]

The centipede has to be a heck of a lot more cartoony than a real centipede or for some it'll be scarier than the Rhino lol.

I will say that I would feel a heck of a lot safer if Tim Burton was making this. He just has the perfect tone and approach to bring this to life. The movie was creepy and weird and surreal in a fun way, unsure if that is something Mendes can do... Think less Burton's Alice and more his other movies.

Burton actually produced the Disney stop motion version and that did have a lot of his usual motifs. I doubt he'd even consider helming another version.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

Yep and it was also directed by Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare before Christmas (for Burton). Pretty much the same creative team.

 

[Abudefduf]

Sam Mendes taking on what? Well, this has got to be the most random thing I've heard all day. Or probably all week.

I'm not gonna pretend to be a fan of the original, but I'm definitely curious to see how they're gonna make the bug characters work in live-action without scaring the crap out of half of the audience.

Yep and it was also directed by Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare before Christmas (for Burton). Pretty much the same creative team.

Jack Skellington even had a cameo in it.

 

[Smilodon]

Didn't Mendes do a stage play adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in London prior to Spectre? Or was scheduled to before Sony wrangled him back into Bond? Maybe he has a thing for Dahl.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yaaaawwwwwwnnn.