Universal Pictures Developing a Reboot of THE BORROWERS
Universal Pictures and Working Title are teaming up to develop a reboot of the 1997 family comedy film The Borrowers. Sausage Party and The Addams Family director Conrad Vernon is in talks to direct, and the screenplay comes from Patrick Burleigh (Eternals, Rabbit 2: The Runaway).
I can barely remember the original film, which starred John Goodman. I’m not even sure why it’s being remade other than the fact Hollywood doesn’t like taking the risks to make original movies.
The Borrowers is an action-adventure film that follows a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of an English house and ‘borrow’ from the big people in order to survive.
In the story for the original movie, “children's author Mary Norton's storybook creations, the four-inch-tall family of ‘borrowers’ who live among humans and co-op their possessions. When a crooked lawyer takes over the Lender family's house, he's got to reckon with the borrowers therein, who launch a campaign to oust the invader and restore the home to its rightful tenants.”
What do you think about Universal Pictures rebooting The Borrowers?
Source: Deadline