Universal Working on "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" Remake

[Sawyer]

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/b...ch-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-1201753133/

Looks like you guys called it.

 

[mclay18]

Cumberbatch has that wonderfully sepulchral voice, i.e. Smaug, so he's actually the perfect guy to fill Boris Karloff's shoes.

Will he narrate the movie too?

 

[DDS]

Cumbergrinch.

 

[Drizzle]

Cumberbatch will kill it.

So we've had Horton, The Lorax, now The Grinch as CGI animated movies. I assume The Cat in the Hat can't be far behind.

 

[Lencho01]

Hmm...

 

[sueb1863]

Will they be using the music from the TV version?

I suspect this will turn out like 'Horton' and 'The Lorax' - the original story padded like crazy with lots of new characters and subplots to make it go to feature length. Maybe throw in an environmental message and a love interest for the Grinch.

 

[terry78]

Christ that thing looks just like Cumberbatch.

 

[The Shape]

I have to wonder, does Cumberbatch ever sleep?

 

[mclay18]

Considering he's a highly in-demand actor, and married with a kid... no. He's likely doing more kids movies so that he can have age-appropriate stuff for his kid to watch.

 

[Lencho01]

Or he's just doing enough to be set for life.

 

[Hurm...]

I'm so for this. I love, love, love the original cartoon special.

 

[mclay18]

It got pushed back a year -- November 9, 2018 -- but if it means a better film, I'm all for it.

http://deadline.com/2016/06/dr-seuss-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-1201768831/

 

[terry78]

I know Illumination pumps out like a flick or two a year, so yeah.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Will they be using the music from the TV version?

I suspect this will turn out like 'Horton' and 'The Lorax' - the original story padded like crazy with lots of new characters and subplots to make it go to feature length. Maybe throw in an environmental message and a love interest for the Grinch.

You mean like the live-action film did?

 

[darthcoolness3]

You mean like the live-action film did?

yeah, but with CGI animation of the future, and knowing The Lorax they will probably have a young kid learning a life lesson by going to the outskirts of Whoville to hunt down a old version of The Grinch that tells the story of his past in flashback mode, and flashback mode will be the story from the Dr. Seuss book.

 

[Darkness Falls]

only found out about this today
perfect casting for the grinch

 

[terry78]

 

[LoganPool]

Definitely looking forward to this... but I gotta ask... am I the only one that loves the Jim Carey live action film???

 

[Wildcard]

Definitely looking forward to this... but I gotta ask... am I the only one that loves the Jim Carey live action film???

Nope. You're not alone there, I've always loved the Jim Carrey version.

 

[Drizzle]

I don't love it, but it gets too much hate from people. It really isn't all that bad. But I can admit that without Jim Carrey's performance, that movie would be nothing.

 

[Lencho01]

https://twitter.com/grinchmovie/status/943526428502409216

 

[terry78]

Another backstory subplot?

 

[2kt09]

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I am still skeptical that there is enough material in the basic Grinch plot to fill up a feature length film without an egregious amount of padding.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The Jim Carrey film has aged very well. It's actually a very good film where they took a very basic, short animated special and managed to make Grinch into more than just a guy who hated Christmas and made him more interesting. Carrey's great in it.