A live-action adaptation of the beloved Curious George children’s books is in the works at Universal, and it has a shiny new director in the form of Andrew Adamson, the man behind the camera for Shrek and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (though, sadly, not the 1988 BBC version). Adamson will also co-write the film, with the reportsaying that it will be based on “the classic book series by Margret and Hans Augusto Rey”. I’m assuming that it’ll be live action in the sense that Paddington was live action: real actors will perform around a CG talking animal. The series revolves around the titular monkey and his misadventures with The Man in the Yellow Hat where his nosiness often finds him in trouble.
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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will produce through their Imagine Entertainment banner, alongside David Kirschner and Jon Shapiro.
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The last movie Adamson directed was 2012’s Cirque de Soleil: Worlds Away. The popular 2006 animated movie that featured the voices of Will Ferrell and Drew Barrymore was made by Universal, which controls the movie rights. That film grossed $69.8 million from a $50 million budget and got mediocre reviews.
