A host of colourful characters, including Mr Tickle, Mr Bump and Little Miss Chatterbox, could anon be branch to the big screen. Fox Animation, the flat abaft the Ice Age and Rio films, has active a accord to about-face Roger Hargreaves's admired children's books into an activated film.
The cine will be produced by Shawn Levy, the director-producer abaft the Night at the Museum series. To date, the film's director, biographer and articulation actors accept not been announced.
In a statement, Levy said: "I admired account these books as a kid, and now I adulation account them to my own kids. Their humour, wit and abnormally specific accent accomplish this a absolutely archetypal series. I can't delay to advice attend them to the big screen."
The aboriginal Mr Men book, Mr Tickle, was appear in 1971. Hargreaves, who died in 1988, went on to broadcast a added 48 books in the series, as able-bodied as 42 Little Miss books. After his death, his son, Adam Hargreaves, connected to address and allegorize added titles in the series. More than 120 actor copies accept been sold, and the books accept been translated into 15 altered languages.
Hargreaves's assignment has ahead been acclimatized for television, including a Seventies BBC alternation (narrated by Dad's Army brilliant Arthur Lowe), and a 2006 US adaptation, The Mr Men Show, which was apparent on Cartoon Network and Channel 5.
Here is Lowe address a archetypal Mr Men episode, Mr Lazy.
