EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has set FernGully as a live-action movie based mostly on the beloved 1992 animated FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Marielle Heller is about to direct her personal script.
Stacey Sher will produce via Shiny Penny together with Susan Ursitti‑Sheinberg, Jon Sheinberg, and Matt Feige via Sheinberg Feige Organization (SFO Entertainment), and Defiant by Nature’s Heller and Leah Holzer. Moonli Singha will govt produce.
The authentic FernGully featured the voices of Robin Williams, Tim Curry, Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis and is remembered for the tug of warfare over Williams voicing one other character in an animated movie, since he was the signature Genie in Disney’s 1992 hit Aladdin. The authentic is about in an Australian rainforest populated by fairies, one among whom by chance shrinks a logger to fairy measurement. They band collectively to guard the rainforest from the logging enterprise and an evil air pollution entity named Hexxus.
The movie featured songs and performances by Elton John, Raffi, Sheena Easton, Curry, Williams – whose “Batty Rap” quantity nonetheless stands out — Johnny Clegg and a music written by Jimmy Buffett.
This marks back-to-back movie offers for writer-director Heller, who will reunite in October along with her A Beautiful Day within the Neighborhood star Tom Hanks in baseball film The Comebacker, which Sony Pictures just won at auction. Playtone and Heller’s Defiant by Nature are producing that one. Heller most just lately wrote and directed the Amy Adams starrer Nightbitch, which she tailored from the Rachel Yoder novel.
Heller is repped by UTA, P.J. Shapiro and Erin Einstein of Johnson Shapiro Slewett. Shout! Factory continues to distribute the unique FernGully movie. The Amazon MGM Studios deal was negotiated by Verve Talent and Fischbach, Perlstein, Lieberman & Almond.
