Wind In The Willows headed for the big screen again
It may be over 100 years old, but the story of a narcissistic toad with too much money, zero self-control, and a terrible driving record only becomes more and more relevant with each passing Lohan, so it makes sense that The Wind In The Willows is getting yet another update. Promisingly, the 2012 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s prescient 1908 children’s book will be a mixture of live action actors and “state-of-the-art animatronics”—not the unholy live-action/CGI hybrid that’s become de rigueur these days—overseen by Peter Jackson’s effects company, Weta Workshop. The script is being handled by Bill Marsilli, who already has experience writing for easily distracted children thanks to his work with Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer on 2006’s Déjà Vu.