Winnie the Pooh’s Christopher Robin Is Getting an R-Rated Collection
Oh, hassle — there’s one more live-action Winnie the Pooh adaptation on the horizon, Selection stories. This time, it comes within the type of Christopher Robin, an R-rated collection which finds our eponymous protagonist all grown up within the massive metropolis with some questionable coping mechanisms.
Christopher Robin will intention to “take all the pieces you assume you recognize about Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh and create one thing fully recent and undeniably humorous.” In keeping with the present’s official logline, the little bright-eyed Chris we all know and love is now out of the Hundred Acre Wooden, and has turn out to be “a disillusioned New Yorker navigating his quarter-life disaster with the assistance of the bizarre speaking animals who dwell past a drug-induced portal outdoors his derelict residence advanced, the Hundred Acres.” Occurs to the very best of us.
The live-action/animation hybrid collection is at the moment in growth from Boat Rocker Studios and Shamier Anderson and Stephan James’ Bay Mills Studios. Its script was written by co-executive producer Charlie Kesslering (International Relations, Most Possible To). Fellow co-executive producer Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2, Sausage Occasion) will direct the pilot, whereas Nick Nantell additionally govt produces for Boat Rocker together with Anderson and James for Bay Mills. Holly Hubsher is overseeing the mission. Keep tuned right here as extra particulars about Christopher Robin emerge.
Now that A. A. Milne’s authentic 1926 assortment of Winnie the Pooh quick tales is within the public area, Pooh Bear’s honey pot runneth over with new re-tellings of the traditional kids’s story. Final yr, the bear was re-imagined as a bloodthirsty beast in Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s horror flick Blood and Honey. Earlier than that, Ewan McGregor additionally starred as an grownup Christopher Robin in Marc Forster’s 2018 live-action Winnie the Pooh characteristic.