Johnny Depp and Edgar Wright to Team up for Neil Gaiman’s FORTUNATELY, THE MILK
According to THR, Johnny Depp is teaming up with director Edgar Wright for a feature film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Fortunately, the Milk. Obviously, Depp will star in the film, and Wright will direct it. The script is being written by Bret McKenzie, who worked on HBO’s Flight of the Conchords.
According to the report, the film is supposed to be a live-actin/animation hybrid. The children’s book is described as "a story of time travel and breakfast cereal." It begins with a father who goes to the store to buy some milk and returns with wild tales of aliens, space-time travel, pirates, and more.
I don’t know abut you, but that sounds like a normal day for me. The rights to the book were acquired by the animation studio Animal Logic Entertainment, who worked on The LEGO Movie. With Depp and Wright on board to bring this story to life, I can’t help but think we’re going to see some marvelous movie magic.
Here’s the official synopsis of the book:
"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road."
"Hullo," I said to myself. "That's not something you see every day. And then something odd happened."
Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious New York Times bestselling story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.
This is one book of Gaiman’s that I’ve never read, but it really doesn’t sound too far off from the crazy stories I tell my own kids.