THR reported that director Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda, The Little Prince) will helm the project, an animated feature based on Jeff Smith’s comic series.
Warner Bros. is already planning to turn the nine volume series into a film trilogy. The company had purchased rights to the film in 2008.
This isn’t the first time a Bone film tried to make it off the ground—Jeff Smith’s own co-founded studio, Character Builders in Columbus, Ohio, had created a pitch years ago, but it never came to fruition and the studio inevitably closed. (This tidbit I heard specifically from former Character Builders staff and isn’t mentioned anywhere online from what I can tell, so take it with a grain of salt.)
Mark Osborne told The Hollywood Reporter: “Bone is very special and unconventional because it blends elements together that you don’t necessarily expect — soft, little comic characters and epic high-stakes fantasy adventure. To carry this into the cinematic realm presents both an opportunity to represent what readers of all ages have loved about the series, while pushing animated storytelling into exciting and different areas.“
