Mandeville Films, the company behind the upcoming "Shaggy Dog" remake and "Beauty Shop" comedy, has already lined up four new pictures for the mouse house in the future according to Reuters. Included in this deal is a remake of "Swiss Family Robinson" for next summer, a feature version of Disneyland theme park ride "Jungle Cruise," and the long-in-the-works "Antarctica," a Frank Marshall-directed remake of the 1983 Japanese film.
The new "Swiss" will keep the 1800s period setting of the Johann David Wyss book. Greg Poirier wrote a first draft about the shipwrecked Swiss settler family. Josh Goldstein and John Norville ("Tin Cup") have inked to pen the script for "Cruise" which has been described as a family "Heart of Darkness" style piece.
"Antarctica" is finally going before cameras in late February after a previous false start. Mandeville is also gearing for a spring start on "The House Next Door," an adaptation of the Anne Siddons novel that is being written and directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue ("Beaches").
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