Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone are nowhere closer to Boneville, but fans of their adventures are two steps closer to seeing "Bone" realized on the big screen.
The Hollywood Reporter has the news that "Greek" creator Patrick Sean Smith has been tapped to adapt Jeff Smith's "Bone" for Warner Bros., with filmmaker P.J. Hogan attached to direct. It's the first concrete news on the project in quite a while, with Smith most recently giving an update this past summer that a new "Bone" screenplay was in the works.
"Bone" tells the story of the three Bone cousins — the genuine Fone, the goofy Smiley and the greedy Phoney — who have been cast out of their beloved home of Boneville after one of Phoney's many schemes went awry. What starts as a seemingly harmless cartoonish journey turns into an epic quest filled with warriors, rat creatures, dragons and worse, with the fate of the Valley resting in the Bone trio's hands.
In the past, "Bone" producer Dan Lin has described the upcoming adaptation as a cross between "Shrek" and "Lord of the Rings," with a little bit of Marx Brothers comedy thrown in for good measure.
"[It's] very fantastical but between the Bone characters [there's] just a lot of comedy," said Lin in 2009.
While no release date is set at the moment, Hogan is expected to direct "Bone" in Australia through Animal Logic, the same animation house behind Zack Snyder's "Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole."
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