Captain Underpants helmer David Soren has been tapped to jot down and direct an animated film primarily based on Geronimo Stilton.
Radar Photos has introduced a characteristic movie adaptation of Geronimo Stilton, primarily based on the youngsters’s guide collection of the identical identify. Award-winning animation filmmaker David Soren (Turbo, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Film, Beneath the Boardwalk) has signed on to jot down and direct the movie a couple of mouse who works as a newspaper editor on New Mouse Island. As a fan of the books, Soren has expressed his pleasure in adapting the story for the display.
“I’m excited to be working with Radar Photos to convey this extremely standard guide collection to life,” Soren stated in a press release. “Geronimo Stilton is beloved all over the world and it’s excessive time for his first hilarious, characteristic movie journey!”
Anthony Tringali, who’s producing with Micahel Napoliello and Maria Frisk, added, “The Geronimo Stilton books are so splendidly witty and also you instantly fall in love with the characters. The film will convey audiences of all ages on an unforgettable and hilarious journey filled with motion, coronary heart, and mousy misadventures.”
Geronimo Stilton was created by Italian writer Elisabetta Dami. It has been featured in over 300 books and translated into greater than 50 languages, in addition to graphic novels, an animate collection, eight stay stage productions, video video games, toys, and extra. The unique books have offered greater than 180 million copies in 150 nations. That form of success has Radar Photos and Soren clearly hopeful that the story of Geronimo Stilton will translate simply as effectively on the massive display.
Geronimo Stilton Is Getting a Function Movie
The mission is a collaboration between Radar Photos and Atlantyca Leisure. Atlantyca President Pietro Marietti additionally addressed the announcement of the characteristic movie adaptation, thrilled to see this story branching out even additional with the franchise’s enlargement.
“Right here at Atlantyca, we’re honored to see our beloved Geronimo Stilton is heading to Hollywood!” Marietti glows. “For 20 years, working with the Atlantyca group we proudly created a world model with extraordinary success achieved via books, the animated collection, our musical and exhibitions, leading to Geronimo Stilton turning into a worldwide transmedia phenomenon. Our partnership with Radar Photos is really a subsequent step for this famed mouse journalist. We’re so excited to see the potential this brings to sharing his story with new audiences on the massive display.”
The official synopsis for the Geronimo Stilton movie reads:
Longing to be taken severely as a journalist and transfer past the tacky puff items he’s normally assigned, Geronimo stumbles onto a conspiracy far greater than anybody anticipated. He’s out of his league and along with his eccentric household all the time up in his enterprise, Geronimo’s issues appear insurmountable. However, working collectively, they may stand an opportunity so long as they’ll keep one step forward of his foes on this explosive sport of cat and mouse.
The Geronimo Stilton film doesn’t but have a launch date for film theaters.