Robert Zemeckis’ Next Christmas Tale To Be The Nutcracker?

11 November 2009 3:38 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Despite a number one position at the box office this weekend (in the Us as well as here, in my motherland), we can't exactly call Robert Zemeckis' film of A Christmas Carol a smash hit. There's definitely a little way to go until it turns a profit on it's supposed $200 million budget. Off timing, then, to hear of his plans for another motion-captured Christmas story, The Nutcracker. In selecting his source material, the rumour goes that Zemeckis will apparently be bypassing the Tchaikvosky ballet version in favour of adapting Eta Hoffman's original story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It's a fantasy yarn which I read as a combination of moral fable and political satire and which drips with threat and dark malice. Already we've had at least three versions brought to the cinema  - once in stop-motion, once in cel-animation, and just this year in live action, and …

- Brendon Connelly

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