British writer Charlie Mackesy is teaming with Oscar-nominated producer Cara Speller (Pear Cider And Cigarettes) to form production company NoneMore Productions, which will focus on developing his works for the screen.Mackesy’s illustrated book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse spent 53 weeks in the Sunday Times’ top 10 bestseller list, winning Waterstones Book of the Year and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year.
That text will now become an animation short film, which is being produced with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions. Abrams and Bad Robot’s President of Motion Pictures Hannah Minghella will serve as producers on the project alongside Speller and NoneMore’s Matthew Freud.The 30-minute short will feature hand-drawn animation
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