Development Hell


Weslandia

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Premise:  An imaginative boy, who feels like he doesn't fit into the world, creates his own world with its own language and clothing.

Genre:  Drama, Children’s Fantasy

Production Company: Jim Henson Company

Distributors: Hollywood Pictures, Walt Disney

Project Phase: In active development

Source material: Based on the book of the same name.

Budget: NA

Release Date: NA

Who's In It: NA

Who's Making It:  Andrew Chapman (Screenwriter); Paul Fleishman (Author); Lisa Henson, Christine Belson, Ed McDonnell (Producers)

Notes:  The book was published by Candlewick Press. Newbery Medal winner and onetime alternate-world creator Paul Fleischman wrote the book, and illustrator Kevin Hawkes's provided the illustrations for this Robinson Crusoe-style adventure.  If you know anything not reported here, please add your own update and fill us in!


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