Radar Footage has secured the characteristic movie rights for “Geronimo Stilton,” the best-selling youngsters’s ebook collection that includes the eponymous adventurous mouse, a newspaper editor on New Mouse Island. The character, created by Italian writer Elisabetta Dami, has starred in over 300 books translated into over 50 languages, in addition to graphic novels, an animated collection, eight dwell stage productions, and video video games.
Award-winning animation filmmaker David Soren (Turbo, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Film, the upcoming Below the Boardwalk) will adapt the ebook collection and direct the movie. Anthony Tringali, Michael Napoliello and Maria Frisk will produce for Radar. Radar’s Ted Subject (The Wheel of Time, Jumanji franchise, Invoice & Ted’s Glorious Journey, Ferngully) will govt produce.
Within the ebook collection, Geronimo, longing to maneuver past the tacky puff items he’s normally assigned as a journalist, stumbles onto a conspiracy far greater than anybody anticipated. He’s out of his league and along with his eccentric household all the time up in his enterprise, Geronimo’s issues appear insurmountable. However, working collectively, they may stand an opportunity so long as they’ll keep one step forward of his foes on this explosive sport of cat and mouse.
The movie is a collaboration between Radar Footage and Atlantyca Leisure, the Milan-based trans-media leisure firm that manages worldwide publishing rights in addition to animation and licensing rights worldwide for the “Geronimo Stilton” ebook collection, together with the three seasons of the Geronimo Stilton animated tv collection.
“I’m excited to be working with Radar Footage to deliver this extremely in style ebook collection to life,” acknowledged Soren. “Geronimo Stilton is beloved around the globe and it’s excessive time for his first hilarious, characteristic movie journey!”
Atlantyca President Pietro Marietti mentioned, “Right here at Atlantyca, we’re honored to see our beloved Geronimo Stilton is heading to Hollywood! For 20 years, working with the Atlantyca workforce we proudly created a worldwide model with extraordinary success achieved by books, the animated collection, our musical and exhibitions, leading to Geronimo Stilton turning into a worldwide transmedia phenomenon. Our partnership with Radar Footage is actually a subsequent step for this famed mouse journalist. We’re so excited to see the potential this brings to sharing his story with new audiences on the massive display.”
“The Geronimo Stilton books are so splendidly witty, and also you instantly fall in love with the characters,” mentioned Tringali. “The film will deliver audiences of all ages on an unforgettable and hilarious journey stuffed with motion, coronary heart, and mousy misadventures.”
Subject mentioned, “Radar is worked up to be working with Atlantyca to deliver this character to the massive display for his many tens of millions of followers and readers across the globe.”
Radar Footage is repped by Buchwald. Soren is repped by Adam Levine and Sara Nestor at Verve Expertise and Literary Company.
Supply: Radar Footage
Whitney is a contract author specializing in VFX-driven fantasy movie & TV in addition to preschool animation.
