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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Mr Men set for big screen

Mr Men.

It's raining Men ... Roger Hargreaves's Mr Men characters have already been a hit with readers in 28 countries worldwide.

Mr Men: The Movie looks set to arrive on the big screen. Twentieth Century Fox's planned adaptation of British author Roger Hargreaves's much-loved children's books is being put together by the studio's animation department, which may preclude the kind of live-action/CGI mix that has seen fans of Yogi Bear, Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks wailing into their popcorn.

But Mr Tickle, Mr Greedy and Mr Nosey may still be rendered in pixels rather than Hargreaves's traditional hand-drawn techniques: Fox Animation is best known for films such as the Ice Age series and Horton Hears a Who!, all of which are heavily CGI-based.

Hargreaves, who died in 1988, wrote 43 Mr Men books, with five more being completed by his son Adam. The Hollywood Reporter's story about the film version does not mention whether the Little Miss characters will also be included. That accompanying series began in 1981 and ended up extending to 42 characters, including Little Miss Chatterbox and Little Miss Scary.



More than 100m books based on Hargreaves's characters have been sold worldwide in 28 countries, so the adaptation already has a global audience. The stories have been adapted into four animated television series, most recently airing in the UK on Channel 5 in 2008 and 2009.




1 comment:

  1. Try Messed Up Men (dot com) instead much funnier. Kids have got enough toys and cartoons. USA wants family guy type stuff.

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