Chuck Russell is working on a new movie version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and it appears he's already chosen his Quasimodo.
Max Ryan is set to play the deformed bellringer after co-writing the screenplay for The Hunchback with Julio Ponce Palmieri (via THR).
A look at the IMDb page for the film indicates the hunchback has been renamed Pierre and Steven Berkoff is also linked to the production.
Filming is set to start on the movie in Serbia next year, with Russell producing alongside Mike Weber as executive producer and Eustace Montgomery Hicks as co-producer.
This would be the latest in a long line of adaptions of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre Dame de Paris.
There's the singalong 1997 Disney version, the well known 1939 Charles Loughton adaptation and even a little known 90s TV movie starring Salma Hayek and Mandy Patinkin.
No release date has yet been set for The Hunchback.
Max Ryan is set to play the deformed bellringer after co-writing the screenplay for The Hunchback with Julio Ponce Palmieri (via THR).
A look at the IMDb page for the film indicates the hunchback has been renamed Pierre and Steven Berkoff is also linked to the production.
Filming is set to start on the movie in Serbia next year, with Russell producing alongside Mike Weber as executive producer and Eustace Montgomery Hicks as co-producer.
This would be the latest in a long line of adaptions of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre Dame de Paris.
There's the singalong 1997 Disney version, the well known 1939 Charles Loughton adaptation and even a little known 90s TV movie starring Salma Hayek and Mandy Patinkin.
No release date has yet been set for The Hunchback.
- 10/17/2015
- Digital Spy
Last time we heard anything about a potential Hunchback Of Notre Dame movie, it was being developed by Tim Burton and Josh Brolin. That one never happened, but now a new version is underway. Chuck Russell is directing The Hunchback, with Max Ryan set to play the unfortunate Quasimodo. Ryan has also written the screenplay, in cahoots with Julio Ponce Palmieri.The film is based, of course, on Victor Hugo's classic novel Notre Dame De Paris: a story that's been much filmed before. There's a 1905 silent version; the famous Charles Laughton 1939 version; a decent '80s TV version with Anthony Hopkins; the 1997 Disney cartoon; and another '90s TV version with Salma Hayek and Mandy Patinkin.At base, the tragic tale revolves around the deformed Paris bellringer Quasimodo and his doomed love quadrangle with the beautiful gypsy girl Esmerelda, the crazed archdeacon Frollo and the dashing military captain Phoebus. Its dark themes take in repression,...
- 10/16/2015
- EmpireOnline
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