With two weeks until the start of production on the Fox film, Mouse Guard, Disney has decided to suspend the project.
What’s happening:
- According to Deadline, Disney has put the brakes on a new motion capture film in the works at Fox just two weeks prior to the start of production.
- Mouse Guard, an adaptation of the comic series by David Petersen, was to be directed by Wes Ball.
- The film was set to star:
- Idris Elba
- Andy Serkis
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster
- Sonoya Mizuno
- Mizuno was to be the lead in the film set in medieval times. The story focuses on, “a brotherhood of mice sworn to protect the fellow rodents in their midst.”
- Michael Fleming Jr. of Deadline wrote on Wednesday, “this is happening in real time, and I heard Disney brass looked at it carefully and the feeling was it wasn’t a good fit. It’s Game of Thrones with mice.”
- Mouse Guard was to be produced by Matt Reeves through his company 6th & Idaho along with Richie and Stephen Christy from Boom! Studios.
- Following this decision, the filmmakers are looking to take it elsewhere, possibly even Netflix.
- Deadline points out that this isn’t Disney snubbing Fox-developed films, rather a shift toward more young adult and adult fare.
- Fox films still set for production include:
- Avatar films
- Kingsman
- Fear Street trilogy
- Free Guy
- West Side Story
- Death on the Nile