Academy Award winning director Chris Wedge checks some ICE AGE storyboards during a break from filming.
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Ice Age Director Leads New Magical CABRET
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Chris Wedge (Ice Age) has signed on to direct Brian Selznick's magic-themed children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The film will be produced by Graham King's GK Films, Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil and Warner Bros. John Logan (Sweeney Todd, Gladiator) has been hired to pen the adaptation. The studio aims to begin production sometime in the fall.
The story centers on an orphaned boy who secretly lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station and looks after the clocks. He gets caught up in a mystery adventure when he attempts to repair a mechanical man.
Wedge also directed Robots. He was an executive producer on Horton Hears a Who!, No Time for Nuts, and Gone Nutty.
Selznick's 533 page novel was published in January 2007 by Scholastic Press. Publishers Weekly declared, "Here is a true masterpiece—an artful blending of narrative, illustration and cinematic technique, for a story as tantalizing as it is touching." The author also wrote The Houdini Box and The Boy of a Thousand Faces.
In additinon to his own writing, Selznick illustrated such books as Frindle and The Doll People.
