Six Join The Spiderwick Chronicles
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
October 4, 2006
Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Martin Short and Joan Plowright are in talks to join the cast of Paramount's big-budget adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles, being directed by Mack Waters.
The Hollywood Reporter says Izabella Miko and Andrew McCarthy also have boarded the production, which is being made by Nickelodeon Movies, Atmosphere Entertainment MM and the Gotham Group, and is mixing live action with visual effects.
The film is based on the bestselling books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi and centers on twin brothers Jared and Simon who, along with their sister Mallory uncover a world of fairies and other creatures.
Freddie Highmore already has been cast as the twins, and Sarah Bolger will play the sister.
Parker would play the kids' mother, worn out by her recent separation from her husband (McCarthy).
Nolte and Short will lend their voices for a couple of otherworldly characters: Mulgrath, a shape-shifting evil lord trying to get his hands on the kids, and Thimbletack/Bogart, a small being that can either protect a household or mischievously throw it in disarray, respectively.
Plowright will play the kids' aunt who is deemed crazy because she can see the creatures and is put into an asylum.
Miko will be the leader of the elves.
Production is under way in Montreal. Mark Canton, Albie Hecht, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Kathleen Kennedy are producing.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
October 4, 2006
Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Martin Short and Joan Plowright are in talks to join the cast of Paramount's big-budget adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles, being directed by Mack Waters.
The Hollywood Reporter says Izabella Miko and Andrew McCarthy also have boarded the production, which is being made by Nickelodeon Movies, Atmosphere Entertainment MM and the Gotham Group, and is mixing live action with visual effects.
The film is based on the bestselling books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi and centers on twin brothers Jared and Simon who, along with their sister Mallory uncover a world of fairies and other creatures.
Freddie Highmore already has been cast as the twins, and Sarah Bolger will play the sister.
Parker would play the kids' mother, worn out by her recent separation from her husband (McCarthy).
Nolte and Short will lend their voices for a couple of otherworldly characters: Mulgrath, a shape-shifting evil lord trying to get his hands on the kids, and Thimbletack/Bogart, a small being that can either protect a household or mischievously throw it in disarray, respectively.
Plowright will play the kids' aunt who is deemed crazy because she can see the creatures and is put into an asylum.
Miko will be the leader of the elves.
Production is under way in Montreal. Mark Canton, Albie Hecht, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Kathleen Kennedy are producing.
