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Mike Newell opening The Box Of Delights
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Mike Newell has signed on to direct an adaptation of John Masefield’s 1930s kids’ book The Box Of Delights. Millions scribe Frank Cottrel Boyce has been hired by bankrollers Brilliant Films to write an adaptation of the story, which finds a young lad entrusted with the titular box, bursting with magic that allows him to time travel and sparks other fun adventures. Readers of a certain age will remember that it became a big hit as a BBC tea time drama (below) back in 1984, and even older types might recall the radio play version. Newell, is apparently one of them… “I first heard Box ...
Mike Newell Opens THE BOX OF DELIGHTS...
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Merrick here... Mike Newell, director of HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE and Jerry Bruckheimer's forthcoming PRINCE OF PERSIA project, looks to be directing an adaptation of John Masefield's 1935 children's book THE BOX OF DELIGHTS ( HERE [image] ). Per THIS reference in Variety. BOX is described thusly by THIS Wiki entry: The central character is Kay Harker who, on returning from boarding school, finds himself mixed up in a battle to possess a magical box, which allows the owner to go small (shrink) and go swift (fly), experience magical wonders contained within the box and go into the past. BOX is actually the second ...
Mike Newell set to direct 'The Box of Delights'
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Mike Newell will direct "The Box of Delights," the big-screen adaptation of John Masefield's 1930s children's novel.
According to Variety, Frank Cottrel Boyce, whose credits include "Millions," "Code 46" and "The Claim," is adapting the book, which follows a boy who recieves a magic box allowing him to travel through time.
Newell's credits include "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
He's currently working on the post-production for his upcoming action flick "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," based on the popular video game.
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Box Of Delights The Box Of Delights Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire director Mike Newell is to helm a big screen adaptation of John Masefield’s children’s classic novel The Box Of Delights, reports Variety . The book, about a boy in the 1930s who is entrusted with a magical box that allows him to travel through time, was made into a fondly-remembered BBC serial starring former Doctor Who Patrick Troughton in 1984. If you don’t remember anything else about it, you'll remember the wolves running! [image] Battlestar And Smallville Stars For Riverworld Battlestar Galactica ...
Mike Newell to reopen Box of Delights
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... This is not the first time that the Masefield book is making the transfer from the page to another medium: there was a popular 1940s BBC radio adaptation, which Newell revealed was where he first came across the story. "I was immediately seduced by the tingling, opening harp music and the fantastical, mysterious, magic story that followed," he told Variety. ...
Newell Opening A Box Of Delights
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... Grace and Chuck . More recently, Newell got the attention of the young adult lit crowd when he took on the fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , the first in the series to garner a PG-13 rating. Working on a popular youth story must have really appealed to Newell, because hes signed on for another one. No, Newell isnt returning to the world of Harry Potter. Instead hes taking on the classic story, The Box of Delights by John Masefield, reports Variety . The 1930s story tells the tale of a boy who receives a magical box that allows him to ...
