Producer Frank Marshall (“Jurassic Park”) and director Barry Sonnenfeld (“Men in Black”) are teaming for a traditional 2D animated feature adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley’s novel “Perestroika in Paris”.
The screwball comedic satire tells the story of a curious three-year-old filly thoroughbred named Perestroika who leaves her stall and finds herself wandering Paris’ Eiffel Tower region.
Soon, she finds company with Frida, a canny German shorthaired pointer whose owner, a vagabond busker, has recently died; Raoul, a sage raven who keeps a perch on a Benjamin Franklin statue, and a pair of squabbling mallards, Sid and Nancy.
But the question of just how long a racehorse can remain ambling in Paris gets more complicated when the animals befriend a young boy living with a very ill, blind and deaf great-grandmother in an old mansion, and authorities begin to close in.
A writer is currently being sought. Sonnenfeld is attached to direct while Marshall will produce.
Source: Heat Vision
