Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield Join Terry Gilliam's WHITE CIRCUS

Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield will be reteaming for the film The White Circus, which is being executive produced by Terry Gilliam. The film will be a dark fairy tale that has been described as an "adventure-romance that takes place on a snowy New Year’s Eve, when a young pilot crashes his plane into a war-torn town on his first mission. There, he falls in love with a beautiful cabaret singer, befriends a talking circus bear and incites the townsfolk to liberate themselves from a despot."

The movie is being helmed by first time feature film directors Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, who were described by producer Gregoire Melin as being "worthy heirs of Gilliam, Jim Henson and Tim Burton," adding that "their work boasts an ever bigger crossover appeal while being smart and innovative." They directed the Oscar-nominated animated short Madame Tutli-Putli, which you can watch below. It will give you a taste of their very unique style.

I'm actually really excited to see what they end up doing with this Circus film. Moretz and Butterfield were great together in Martin Scorsese's Hugo, and it will be cool to see them back together. The movie is set to start shooting in Germany and Serbia in February 2014.