According to The Tracking Board, TriStar Pictures has tapped screenwriter Michael Vukadinovich (The Three Misfortunes of Gepetto) to pen a big screen adaptation of the classic 1961 children’s novel The Phantom Tollbooth by writer Norton Juster and illustrator Jules Feiffer.
The Phantom Tollbooth “tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly received a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do, decides to drive through it in his toy car. The tollbooth transports him to a land called the Kingdom of Wisdom, where he acquires two faithful companions, has many adventures, and goes on a quest to rescue the princesses of the kingdom from a castle in the air.”
The project has been in development for several years now, and was initially set up at Warner Bros., where The Hunger Games director Gary Ross was attached alongside screenwriter Alex Tse (Watchmen). An earlier live-action/animated film was released back in 1970 courtesy of MGM, with animation legend Chuck Jones directing.
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Originally published August 11, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
