Ray Bradbury's THE HALLOWEEN TREE Is Getting a Film Adaptation From Warner Bros.
Warner Bors. is set to produce a feature film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1972 fantasy novel The Halloween Tree. The studio also hired Will Dunn to adapt it. He was a member of 20th Century Fox’s Feature Writer Program.
The Halloween Tree follows a character named Tom and his schoolmates, “who begin to investigate the strange happenings in their small town on Halloween night. Their friend Pip is abducted by a powerful demon from the Land of the Dead. With the help of an unlikely ally, a mysterious figure named Moundshroud, Tom and his pals must journey into the Land of the Dead to save their friend.”
The boys with Moundshroud “pursue their friend across time and space traveling to ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and to places such as the Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris, and the Day of the Dead in Mexico. Along the way, they learn the origins of the holiday that they celebrate, and the role that the fear of death, ghosts, and the haunts has played in shaping civilization. The Halloween Tree itself, with its many branches laden with jack-o’-lanterns, serves as a metaphor for the historical confluence of these traditions.”
This won’t be the first time this story has been adapted. In 1993 a feature-length animated version of the novel was developed for television. That adaptation was written by Bradbury, and he also narrated it. He actually won the 1994 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program for that project.
The Halloween Tree is going to make for an incredible feature film! I’m super excited about this! I love the story and I loved that animated adaptation. I can’t wait to see it brought to life on the big screen! This is going to be awesome!
Source: Deadline