Matthew Warchus (Matilda: The Musical) is ready to direct the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reimagining within the works from Amazon MGM Studios and EON Productions, Amazon stated Thursday.
Warchus will work from a script by Enda Walsh (Small Things Like These). The movie, which Deadline informed you about first, is in early levels of improvement and builds on EON and Amazon MGM’s partnership on the James Bond franchise.
Originally conceived by Bond writer Ian Fleming as a bedtime story for his son Casper, his 1964 novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was beforehand tailored right into a 1967 movie directed by Ken Hughes off a script by Roald Dahl, Hughes and Richard Maibaum. The story is a whimsical household journey following inventor Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), his two kids and Truly Scrumptious (Sally Anne Howes) — daughter of sweet manufacturing unit proprietor Lord Scrumptious (James Robertson Justice)— as they restore an outdated automotive, which seems to have magical skills, together with flight and water navigation. Together, they embark on a fantastical journey to the fictional nation of Vulgaria to rescue kidnapped kids from the tyrannical Baron and Baroness Bomburst (Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle).
Cubby Broccoli produced the movie, with Ken Adam dealing with the manufacturing design, and the Sherman Brothers penning its Oscar-nominated title tune.
A two-time BAFTA nominee, Warchus’ credit as director embrace Matilda: The Musical and Pride starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West. He is repped by The Agency.
Also a BAFTA nominee, Walsh is greatest recognized for scripting Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These and for co-writing Steve McQueen’s Hunger. He additionally labored on Lynne Ramsay’s forthcoming Die, My Love and is repped by Curtis Brown Group.
