Karl Urban Joins Rainbow Family Adventure Film THE WONDER
This seems like an intriguingly different project for Karl Urban to involve himself with. It's a 3D family film called The Wonder, and it's a fantasy adventure that centers around magic rainbows. Apparently the actor is officially signed on with the film now, and it sounds like it's going to be a very crazy film... seriously! Just read over this breakdown of the story (thanks to Empire), and see for yourself!
The Wonder follows three teenagers, led by defiant outsider Rachel (Willow Shields), who after a bruising encounter with school bullies, experiences something incredible and seemingly impossible… a rainbow reaching up to the sky from a pool of golden energy.
With the help of friends Grace, a Chinese girl and Tane, a Maori boy, the teenage trio adopt high-tech methods to find another, and learning of ancient rainbow legends they each make a special wish. Finally they actually track down a rainbow and go on an incredible but terrifying ride. What the teenagers don’t realize is that on entering the rainbow, they’ve alerted the powerful covert meteorological agency Climate Anomalies Corporation and Dr Helen Armstrong and her agents are soon in pursuit.
As they crash-land in the midst of a Dragon Boat Festival in China, some teenage allies save the trio. Desperate to find a rainbow to take them home, their new friends and young scientist Ichee find the means, but their journey back to New Zealand is amidst violent skies across the Pacific and their mission becomes a global race against time to restore the whole balance of nature.
See, I told you! Urban will play an aid to the teens named Consul William Stanley on their adventure. The film is being directed by Peter Hewitt (Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey) from a script by Ashley and Robert Sidaway.