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THR reported that director Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda, The Little Prince) will helm the project, an animated feature based on Jeff Smith’s comic series.
Warner Bros. is already planning to turn the nine volume series into a film trilogy. The company had purchased rights to the film in 2008.
This isn’t the first time a Bone film tried to make it off the ground—Jeff Smith’s own co-founded studio, Character Builders in Columbus, Ohio, had created a pitch years ago, but it never came to fruition and the studio inevitably closed. (This tidbit I heard specifically from former Character Builders staff and isn’t mentioned anywhere online from what I can tell, so take it with a grain of salt.)
Mark Osborne told The Hollywood Reporter: “Bone is very special and unconventional because it blends elements together that you don’t necessarily expect — soft, little comic characters and epic high-stakes fantasy adventure. To carry this into the cinematic realm presents both an opportunity to represent what readers of all ages have loved about the series, while pushing animated storytelling into exciting and different areas.“
this is so surreal because pretty recently my siblings and I were talking about Bone like “remember that dope graphic novel series that was popular a couple years back” and my mom was listening in and asked “do you think they’d ever make a movie about it?”
and I was like “no, no way” and my siblings and I unanimously agreed that making a movie out of it would be an abomination. There are just some things that should remain in their original format. How would they create the Bones themselves? They look fine in comic format but can you imagine how uncanny they would look animated? What would they do to the Red Dragon? In my opinion it’s all just way too comic to be a movie.
Of course it would have to be PG because of the targeted audience of the comics, so it would lose some of the factors that I enjoy. Like, the slow frog-in-a-frying-pan burn from a beginning with whimsical and funny characters to an absolute fucking surreal apocalypse with gory deaths.
I can’t even begin to picture a movie like this actually doing justice to the Bone series. it’s just…. idk, too whimsical and too unconventional. however if they actually pull it off I will be ecstatic.
