MOUSE GUARD (Test Footage Revealed; Cancelled 2 Weeks Before Production Begins)

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Matt Reeves and Gary Whitta to Adapt Eisner Award-Winner MOUSE GUARD for Fox

Matt Reeves and Gary Whitta are teaming up to adapt the Eisner-winning graphic novel series Mouse Guard. Fox has optioned the best-selling work by David Petersen that will be penned by Whitta, the screenwriter of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Reeves, the director of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Cloverfield, will produce the adaptation via his 6th & Idaho banner, along with Mouse Guard publisher Boom! Studios' Ross Richie and Stephen Christy. Reeves is not intending to helm the project.

The studio is looking to make a live-action movie utilizing the performance-capture technology pioneered for Fox’s acclaimed Apes franchise as well as technology used by Disney’s live-action animal tale The Jungle Book to bring the Mouse Guard world to vivid life.

Created, written and illustrated by Petersen, Mouse Guard tells of anthropomorphic mice set in medieval times, focusing on a brotherhood of mice that is sworn to protect the common folk. Or rodent, as it were.

The series, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary and hails from Boom!’s imprint Achaia, has almost one million copies in print and has been translated into 10 languages. It is considered one of the most successful independent comic book franchises of the last decade, with three volumes of the main series, three volumes of a spinoff series Mouse Guard: Legend of the Guard and a Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game published. A new series titled Mouse Guard: The Weasel Wars is expected to launch next year.

Matt Reeves, Gary Whitta to Adapt Eisner Award-Winner 'Mouse Guard' for 20th Century Fox (Exclusive)

 

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@Anung Un Rama @AnybodyElseWhoLikesThisStuff

Don't have any knowledge about the books before this but I was very impressed with the artwork when googling them. I'm now very interested and will definitely keep track of this production.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Miuse Guard is awesome. I'm not too well versed, but I've read several of these books and bought even more for my nephew. Artwork is amazing and the story telling is legit.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

I think they have a spin off Mouse Templar aloe something? Never read any of those.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Miuse Guard is awesome. I'm not too well versed, but I've read several of these books and bought even more for my nephew. Artwork is amazing and the story telling is legit.

Thanks. I'll try to read the books.

I think they have a spin off Mouse Templar aloe something? Never read any of those.

I googled Mice Templar and the artwork isn't as nice as Mouse Guard. Bloodier though.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Thanks. I'll try to read the books.


I googled Mice Templar and the artwork isn't as nice as Mouse Guard. Bloodier though.

Probably just a money grab.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Probably just a money grab.

Wiki'd them and I think both titles are not connected. Mouse Guard was created in 2006 and published by Archaia Studios Press while Mice Templar was created in 2007 and published by Image Comics.

 

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Update: March 8, 2019

Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster to Star in Fox's MOUSE GUARD

Mouse Guard, Fox’s adaptation of one of the most popular indie comics of the decade, has found its leads. Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster have signed to star in the feature that is being directed by Wes Ball, the filmmaker behind the Maze Runner movies.

Based on the comics and graphic novel by David Petersen, Mouse Guard is a set in a medieval world and tells of an order of mice who are the sworn protectors of their realm. Enemies range from predators such as foxes and eagles to other rodents. A sort of Game of Thrones with mice, the series from Archaia/Boom! Studios has won two Eisner Awards.

Serkis will portray the villain of the piece, the Guard’s blacksmith known as Midnight, who turns against it. Brodie-Sangster will play Lieam, one of the Guard’s newest and youngest members, who will be called upon to prove his bravery.

Mouse Guard is being shot using motion capture and will have WETA providing visual effects. Matt Reeves is producing along with Boom!’s Ross Richie and Stephen Christy as well as Joe Hartwick Jr. The project is expected to begin production in May.

Serkis is the master of motion capture, having pioneered the process playing Gollum in the Lord of the Ringsmovies. He also starred as Caesar, the conflicted ape leader in Fox’s Planet of the Apes trilogy. Serkis most recently directed Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.

Brodie-Sangster stole hearts as the idealistic Newt in Ball’s Maze Runner movies. Other credits include Love, Actually and Nowhere Boy.

Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster to Star in Fox's 'Mouse Guard' (Exclusive)

 

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Update: March 22, 2019

Idris Elba to Star in Eisner Award-Winner MOUSE GUARD Adaptation for Fox

Idris Elba is in final negotiations to star in Mouse Guard, Fox’s adaptation of the Boom! Studios comic being directed by Wes Ball, the filmmaker behind the Maze Runner movies.

Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster are already on the roll call for the project, which is described as a sort of Game of Thrones with mice and which will be shot using motion capture and have WETA providing visual effects.

Based on the comics and graphic novel by David Petersen, Mouse Guard is a set in a medieval world and tells of an order of mice who are the sworn protectors of their realm. Enemies range from predators such as foxes and eagles to other rodents. The series from Archaia/Boom! is a two-time Eisner Award winner.

Elba will play Celanawe, an Obi-Wan Kenobi-like figure who was once a legendary champion and now thought long gone.

Serkis is the villain of the piece, the Guard’s blacksmith known as Midnight who turns against it. Brodie-Sangster is Lieam, one of the Guard’s newest and youngest members who will be called upon to prove his bravery.

Matt Reeves is producing along with Boom!’s Ross Richie and Stephen Christy as well as Joe Hartwick Jr. A May start of production is being planned.

Idris has turned into one of the town’s most in-demand actors, wrapping up a deal to star in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad for Warner Bros. He plays a villain in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, which is slated to bow Aug. 2, and is coming off of filming Working Title and Universal’s adaptation of the Broadway mainstay Cats, in which he plays the feline Macavity.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/idris-elba-talks-star-mouse-guard-1196084

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

I don't know anything about the source material but I feel this is like one of my childhood favorite animated movie The Secret of NIMH mixed with Lord of the Rings. I'm in.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

I don't know anything about the source material but I feel this is like one of my childhood favorite animated movie The Secret of NIMH mixed with Lord of the Rings. I'm in.

Its like Game of Thrones meets Watership Down. I never got too deep into it, but I absolutely loved the artwork.

 

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I'm predicting my kids will be all over this.


Once I'm done manipulating them that is.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Idris' agent strikes again. Poor fucking guy.

 

[irish_thug]

Idris' agent strikes again. Poor fucking guy.

Ghostrider, Thor, Suicide squad, this. He's just after all the comic book roles.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

I'm predicting my kids will be all over this.


Once I'm done manipulating them that is.

LOL.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Ghostrider, Thor, Suicide squad, this. He's just after all the comic book roles.

teeny tiny roles; dude's leading man material but chooses the worst movies or dinky roles in big movies.

 

[DoomPatrol]

This reminds me of the Redwall books, which were super dope to read as a kid. Really gotten children's medieval fantasy with mice and other small animals as characters instead of people.

 

[Yoel Bromero]

This reminds me of the Redwall books, which were super dope to read as a kid. Really gotten children's medieval fantasy with mice and other small animals as characters instead of people.

Loved those

 

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This reminds me of the Redwall books, which were super dope to read as a kid. Really gotten children's medieval fantasy with mice and other small animals as characters instead of people.

yeah, this is immediately what i thought of when i first heard about this series too.

i'd like to get some of the Mouse Guard books to check them out.

 

[Organic Damage]

Man, this won the Eisner and I've never heard of it? I'm pretty out of touch with comics now I guess... Sounds pretty interesting though.