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18/5/2018

Locksmith Animation Sets Up Animated Feature Based On ‘Wed Wabbit’ Kids’ Books

Wed Wabbit, written by Lissa Evans

Wed Wabbit, written by Lissa Evans, follows a ten-year-old girl, Fidge, who lives with her dippy mother and four-year-old sister Minnie and is obsessed her furry red toy rabbit and a book about multi-colored creatures known as Wimbley Woos.
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The film is being eyed as a hybrid live-action and animation. It is the latest Evans’ book to be developed as a feature film after her book Their Finest Hour and a Half, about a group of Soho-based advertising execs during WWII, was turned into BBC Films’ Their Finest' starring Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy.
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The film may be produced in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film after the U.S. studio struck a deal with the UK firm last year. If so, it would be Locksmith’s second animated feature under the multi-picture deal with Fox after the two set up Ron’s Gone Wrong with co-directors Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3) and Pixar Story vet J.P. Vine (Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur). Locksmith and Fox are expected to release one animated film every year / 18 months with the UK based studio developing and producing projects with Double Negative providing digital production and Fox releasing.

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by Peter WhiteJanuary 29, 2018 - Deadline

18/5/2018

Lissa Evans’ ‘Wed Wabbit’ Hopping to Screens with Locksmith Animation

Locksmith Animation has optioned the rights

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London-based CG feature studio Locksmith Animation has optioned the rights to Lissa Evans’ children’s novel Wed Wabbit, and will be turning the critically lauded comedy-adventure into a live-action/animation hybrid family film. The title has recently been shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Children’s Book Award and the Blue Peter Book Award.
Wed Wabbit follows 10-year-old Fidge as she is hurled into the bizarre world of her four-year-old sister’s favorite story book, the land of the Wimbley Woos. With two weird companions and her awful cousin Graham, she must find a way out by solving a series of nearly impossible clues, whilst fending off a cruel dictator who cannot pronounces his Rs. Among the enthusiastic reviews the book has received, In Darknessauthor Nick Lake wrote: “In 50 years’ time, people may say ‘It’s a bit like Wed Wabbit‘ as they now say ‘It’s a bit like Narnia.’”
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“Lissa’s children’s books are absolute page-turners and passionate favorites among kids. The hilarious, magical and wildly inventive Wed Wabbit is unlike anything I’ve come across, an instant classic in the making, and built on a bedrock of truth about the rub in sibling relationships,” said Sarah Smith, who founded Locksmith in 2014 with Julie Lockhart and co-founder Elisabeth Murdoch. “It’s a fabulously imaginative canvas for a collaboration with Locksmith’s visual and story artists and as the parent of a Wed Wabbit devotee I couldn’t be more excited to work on bringing it to the big screen.”
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Mercedes Milligan Jan 29th, 2018 The Animation Magazine

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