Amelia Bedelia Coming to the Big Screen
Source: Variety
April 22, 2005
Universal and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will turn children's book series Amelia Bedelia into a live-action feature, says Variety.
Herman Parish, nephew of Amelia Bedelia creator Peggy Parish, will write the script. He has continued writing the 40-year-old series since his aunt's death in 1988. Hanks and Goetzman will produce.
Amelia Bedelia revolves around a housekeeper whose literal interpretations of instructions left by her employers always leads to trouble.
The deal marks another major children's book adaptation for Hanks and Goetzman, who are coming off The Polar Express and are readying Ant Bully for a CGI animation film for Warner Bros. for summer 2006.
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Hilarious children's books.
Source: Variety
April 22, 2005
Universal and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will turn children's book series Amelia Bedelia into a live-action feature, says Variety.
Herman Parish, nephew of Amelia Bedelia creator Peggy Parish, will write the script. He has continued writing the 40-year-old series since his aunt's death in 1988. Hanks and Goetzman will produce.
Amelia Bedelia revolves around a housekeeper whose literal interpretations of instructions left by her employers always leads to trouble.
The deal marks another major children's book adaptation for Hanks and Goetzman, who are coming off The Polar Express and are readying Ant Bully for a CGI animation film for Warner Bros. for summer 2006.
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Hilarious children's books.
