Barry Mendel to produce INKHEART

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2006
Source: Variety

According to Variety, Barry Mendel (The Sixth Sense) has signed on to produce the film INKHEART, an adaptation of the first in Cornelia Funke's fantasy trilogy.

Inkheart stars Brendan Fraser as a father who can bring characters from books to life by reading stories aloud to his daughter. When the father is kidnapped by some of the fantasy villains in the bedtime tales, his daughter and her friends try to free him. Paul Bettany and Jim Broadbent have also been cast in the film.

Filming is expected to get underway in November.