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Ron Howard to adapt The Shrinking of Treehorn as animated film

June 24, 2019 by Gary Collinson

Filmmaker Ron Howard is set to turn his attention to the world of animation for the first time, with Variety reporting that he has signed on to direct a feature-length adaptation of Florence Parry Heide’s children’s book The Shrinking of Treehorn.

The 1971 book follows a young man who begins shrinking in size after playing a strange board game. The movie adaptation is being produced by Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment along with Animal Logic, the company behind The LEGO Movie and Happy Feet, and will incorporate the same aesthetics as artist Edward Gorey’s book illustrations. Rob Lieber (Peter Rabbit, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) is writing the script.

“I’ve long had this passionate point of view that Ron Howard should make a tentpole animated movie,” said Animal Login CEO Zareh Nalbandian. “It was serendipitous that Imagine was sort of evolving and growing, and Animal Logic was more and more committed to the development and production of our own intellectual property. We have a shared vision of what that space can be.”

SEE ALSO: Ron Howard explains why he believes Solo: A Star Wars didn’t perform at the box office

Howard is currently shooting his Netflix feature Hillbilly Elegy, which features a cast that includes Amy Adams, Haley Bennett, Glenn Close and Gabriel Basso.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Ron Howard, The Shrinking of Treehorn

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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