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Live-Action, Live-Action, Live-Action….

It has been barely a month after the release of the Live-Action adaptation of The Transformers and it seems as though adaptations of other classics are being green lit left and right. Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book,” has been given the OK to start production this year and carry on for another two. Pathe and the BBC are working together to give it a budget of $50 million and it will be created with the help of an innovative technology that allows filmmakers to film real life animals, then use computer generated graphics to essentially make them talk.

Other classics that are on their way is Voltron, funded by Jim Young’s Animus Films; The Jetsons with the possible direction of Robert Rodriguez, although there are other films that could ultimately be done instead; it seems that this seems as the way to go since its script is further along. Also Tintin, an adaptation of the Adventures of Tin Tin is in the works with a projected release of 2009. It will be a trilogy with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson directing two of the three pictures.

It is fantastic that moviegoers and fans of these timeless classics will get to enjoy them once more, this time with a realistic tone that hopefully will allow them to not just watch the movie, but also experience them.

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