ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jeff Smith's Bone Books Coming to Theaters

Jeff Smith's Bone Books Coming to Theaters

Warners taking long-running strip from page to screen.

by Jeff Giles | March 10, 2008

The comic book adventures of Jeff Smith's popular Bone brothers may have ended in 2004, but if all goes according to plan, they'll soon be making the transition to the big screen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has picked up the screen rights to Smith's creations; though the studio hasn't decided whether to go the live-action or animated route, a production crew -- including Dan Lin and Jon Silk -- has been assembled. From the article:

The fantasy series followed three cousins from the Bone family who are small, white and bald humanlike creatures with big noses. The trio are run out of their hometown and find themselves in a mysterious valley where they are separated and hunted by other creatures. They are taken in by a girl named Thorn and her grandmother, and find out that the valley is threatened by an evil force called the Lord of the Locusts.

This is the second trip around the screen-adaptation block for Bone; as the Reporter notes, Nickelodeon was developing an animated version for a time, but the project fell apart over disagreements regarding the project's focus (in the article's words, "Smith was displeased that the studio was aiming it for kids and wanted the film to include pop songs").

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Dinobot77 writes:
on Mar 10 2008 11:09 AM

I have faith in this, since they actually decided not to go the Hanna Montoya route. I hope they go for that dark edge that the comic had and delivers. I am going to reserve judgement though until I read more.

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jpotter writes:
on Mar 10 2008 12:02 PM

awesome. please do it with hand-drawn animation...

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harrismonkey writes:
on Mar 10 2008 01:30 PM

Warner Brothers...

Isn't that the company that's currently wrecking a perfectly good adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are because it's not bland and sanatized enough for them?

Sounds like a perfect match for Bone.

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MaxFisher14 writes:
on Mar 10 2008 03:00 PM

I have good faith in this, because BONE is/ was a great graphic novel series.

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Introducing.. writes:
on Mar 10 2008 03:31 PM

I just finished reading the entire Bone series last month, and I loved it. I can't imagine this being done any other way than hand drawn animation though. This could not work with live-action and CG would be very lame.

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POPCORNLUMPY writes:
on Mar 10 2008 05:21 PM

Do this hand-drawn pleae, althogh it whould be cool to see a cgi one bone, but it whould take to long to make, so yeah go with the hand-drawn please.

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goldmonkee writes:
on Mar 10 2008 09:21 PM

Awesome:)

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Bevans writes:
on Mar 10 2008 11:11 PM

I think everyone here knows that they won't do it with hand-drawn animation, no matter how well it would fit. It can't work as live-action, so it's almost sure to be CG. So, let's just hope for good, stylish CG.

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nylorac15 writes:
on Mar 11 2008 08:37 AM

Please don't ruin it please don't ruin it please don't ruin it.

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Laurentg writes:
on Mar 20 2008 05:36 AM

Nobody does hand drawn stuff anymore. Just as well hope for a mute black and white version. Good CG al a Ratatouille would probably work best. I've always thought about it as a live action movie with some animated characters myself... And Scarlett Johannsen as Thorn... Not sure it would really work though. Snoopy-like characters in Lord of the Rings...?? =/

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