According to The Tracking Board, director Mark Waters (Mean Girls) has signed on to direct Disney’s long-gestating live-action family comedy Magic Camp, which has Steve Martin attached to star.
The site reports that Magic Camp “follows a rigid and cautious banker who returns to the summer camp he attended as a boy: a camp for magic. His return to the camp is as a fun counselor to help out the young group of rag-tag magicians, but privately he also has an eye on winning the Golden Wand competition.”
Along with a new director, screenwriters Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue have been brought in to work on the script, taking over from Max Winkler and Matthew Spicer, who only joined the project back in July.
The project will mark Waters’ second collaboration with Disney, having previously helmed the 2003 comedy Freaky Friday starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. His next offering, the comedy sequel Bad Santa 2, is set for release in November.
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Originally published September 18, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
