Barry Sonnenfeld Set to Direct 2D Animated Film Adaptation of PERESTROIKA IN PARIS
Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of films such as Men in Black, Addams Family, Get Shorty, and more, is set to helm an animated feature film adaptation of the book Perestroika in Paris, which is the latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley. Sonnenfeld is teaming up with mega-producer Frank Marshall on the project.
The story deals with talking animals, and the plan is to bring it to life using traditional, 2D animation. The producers are currently on the hunt for a writer to adapt the material. Chances are you don’t know much about the story, so here are the details on that.
Perestoika is described as a “screwball comedic satire”, and it tells the story of “a curious 3-year-old filly thoroughbred named Perestroika who leaves her stall and finds herself wandering the City of Light's Eiffel Tower region. Soon, she finds company with Frida, a canny German shorthaired pointer whose owner, a vagabond busker, has recently died; Raoul, a sage raven who keeps a perch on a Benjamin Franklin statue, and a pair of squabbling mallards, Sid and Nancy. But the question of just how long a racehorse can remain ambling in Paris gets more complicated when the animals befriend a young boy living with a very ill, blind and deaf great-grandmother in an old mansion, and authorities begin to close in.”
This wouldn’t be the first film produced by Marshall involving horses. Apparently, the producer is one of Hollywood's biggest horse lovers, and he produced the fantastic 2003 film Seabiscuit, which is one of my favorite movies.
Perestroika in Paris will also be the first animated film for Sonnenfeld. The last project he directed was the Netflix series adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events. I like Sonnenfeld as a director, and I’m curious to see what he ends up doing with this movie.
Source: THR