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Ewan McGregor is in talks to star in Disney's Christopher Robin.

Disney's live-action film, which will be helmed by World War Z and Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster, centers on the child from the A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories — but he's all grown up.

McGregor will play the adult Christopher Robin, who's lost his sense of imagination and is a businessman focused on work and success.

The studio also is bringing in Oscar-nominated screenwriter Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures) to take a new pass of the script. Alex Ross Perry wrote the screenplay, with Tom McCarthy working on a later draft.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ewan-mcgregor-star-disneys-christopher-robin-997556

Hidden Figures was good so maybe this might turn out to be interesting?

 

[SpaceWolf]

Yes, that's right Ewan. Bide your time. Wait patiently for the Obi-Wan spin-off.

McGregor will play the adult Christopher Robin, who's lost his sense of imagination and is a businessman focused on work and success.

What a great Hook.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Hidden Figures was good so maybe this might turn out to be interesting?

Hidden Figures was good because the story it was based on is a great story.

This is Hook.

 

[MisterHero]

That's awesome I love Hook

 

[B-Dubs]

Hidden Figures was good because the story it was based on is a great story.

This is Hook.

So it's going to be great fun.

 

[John Dunbar]

i hope he finds his "imagination" with drugs.

 

[m_shortpants]

I just rewatched Hook this weekend.

This is Hook.

 

[jetjevons]

I'm ok with this.

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[smokeymicpot]

Sounds like Hook.

 

[Switch Back 9]

Tigger-OH Tigger-OH Tigger-OH Tigger-OOHHHHH

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Oh this is that Pooh thing Perry was working on.

Eh.

 

[Randdalf]

Sounds like a cross between Hook and Ted

 

[Makonero]

Hidden Figures was good because the story it was based on is a great story.

This is Hook.

roofio

roofio

 

[UnemployedVillain]

This is literally Hook

 

[FeenixRising]

 

[WillyFive]

Who will play Rufio?

 

[SpaceWolf]

I'd love to see this premise with Calvin and Hobbes. A 34 year old Calvin, now a flustered board-room executive, trying to reconnect with Hobbes during a weekend stay with his parents.

 

[Enduin]

No baseball game, no watch.

 

[DMczaf]

I read Christopher Nolan and got excited for a Nolan bio pic

 

[Xero]

dustin hoffman needs to be in this now.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

This sounds awesome. I'm in.

 

[HStallion]

Wasn't this idea incredibly similar to a fantasy movie pitch given by Max Landis?

 

[Switch Back 9]

I'd love to see this premise with Calvin and Hobbes. A 34 year old Calvin, now a flustered board-room executive, trying to reconnect with Hobbes during a weekend stay with his parents.

Ew, no.

C&H is perfection as is. Thank god Bill Watterson has such a tight grip on the rights.

 

[SpaceWolf]

Ew, no.

I was joking.

 

[Jawmuncher]

If they castes anyone other than Ewan I wouldn't have even opened this thread .

 

[zeemumu]

This will either annoy me or make me cry. No in between

He should've grown up to play baseball

 

[Aiii]

If this is like Hook than sign me the fuck up.

 

[lightskintwin]

Hidden Figures was good because the story it was based on is a great story.

This is Hook.

A great story doesnt equal a good script. Ever seen Ameila?

 

[Malreyn]

This should have been a horror pic about Homerun Derby

 

[highrider]

My mom always tells me how I forced her to play this record over and over when I was 4. Even as an old fucker, it always calms me down.

https://youtu.be/wQhCNOV5Gnk

 

[El Topo]

Oh God. Oh no. Oh God. Oh no. No. Nonono. Oh God. Why, Disney? Why? No. Oh God. No.
*breaks down due to baseball flashbacks*

 

[Bobby Roberts]

So it's going to be great fun.

A great story doesnt equal a good script. Ever seen Ameila?

What

 

[Poohblaster]

Christopher Robin heads back to the 100 Acre Woods to help Pooh find investigate a string of connected murders.

Eeyore is dead
Tigger is a meth addict
Owl is the head of an organized crime group

This stuff just writes itself.

 

[Einchy]

"Ewan"

OH

"McGregor"

OH!

"to Star in Disney's"

"Christopher Robin"

 

[Max Armstrong]

Thank god Alex Ross Perry isn't wasting time directing this, I still would have been pretty interested to see it like PTA's Pinocchio because it's so out there in their filmography, but I'd rather they spend time doing something else.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

This should have been a horror pic about Homerun Derby

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Finally, the long awaited Hook reboot.

 

[lightskintwin]

What

LOL My point is just because a story is great doen't mean it will be told well when it's adapted to film.

 

[Toothless]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ewan-mcgregor-star-disneys-christopher-robin-997556

Hidden Figures was good so maybe this might turn out to be interesting?

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!

Writer of Hidden Figures is a HUGE FUCKING STEP DOWN from the writer of Listen Up Phillip or the writer of Spotlight. This project sounded interesting to me always because Perry was supposed to write and direct; removing him (or McCarthy) and adding in Forster (who has proven to be a dull blockbuster director) makes it a generic adaptation like most of Disney's recent remakes. Ugh, this sounds dreadful now.

 

[ginger ninja]

These fuckers need to get him on board for some kind of Obi wan movie.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

LOL My point is just because a story is great doen't mean it will be told well when it's adapted to film.

Well, yeah. But that's not really my point. Hidden Figures had a good story.

Hook did not.

This is Hook.

 

[Into the Light]

i hope he finds his "imagination" with drugs.

XD



This is not the Disney Ewan news I am looking for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tylercrat]

I love Hook! Sign me up!

 

[Sibersk Esto]

So this isn't about A.A Milne's son of the same name that grew up resenting the fact that his father used his name for the character?

 

[Volimar]

This sounds terrible, but then if you had read me the synopsis of Hook before I saw it I would have said the same, and I really liked that film.

 

[lightskintwin]

Well, yeah. But that's not really my point. Hidden Figures had a good story.

Hook did not.

This is Hook.

OH OK, I get you now.

Never watched Hook, even as a kid that film looked lame to me.

 

[Buckle]

...So he can do the Star Wars spinoff after this, right?

 

[shira]

Baseball scene please

CROB is da goat pitcher

 

[LegalEagleMike]

...So he can do the Star Wars spinoff after this, right?

Now that he has proven himself to his Disney overlords yes.

 

[kswiston]

I wonder which of those UNTITLED DISNEY FAIRY TALE placeholder slots this will take up. August 2018?