Fry and Laurie reteam for The Canterville Ghost
- Comic pair reunites for animated version of Oscar Wilde classic
The voices of Stephen Fry (photo) and Hugh Laurie will return with director Kim Burden’s (television’s Stressed Eric) CG animated film The Canterville Ghost, based on Oscar Wilde’s popular short story, first published in 1887 and adapted by Keiron Self and Giles New. The duo combined in the past for iconic television properties Jeeves and Wooster and A Bit Of Fry And Laurie. In the film, Fry will voice the titular Sir Simon Canterville, a ghost, and Laurie as his bête noire, a gardener. The Wilde story has been adapted 12 times previously for film and television.
The film is a co-production between the UK’s Melmoth Films, who own the rights to the story, Fry’s Sprout Pictures, D’Arblay Films and Canada’s Dorado Media and Capital and Arc Productions with the backing of the BFI Film Fund.
Arc President Jeff Young said, “As the first project through the Dorado-Arc pipeline, The Canterville Ghost embodies all of the qualities we are looking for in an animated feature film and will yet again allow us to showcase our creative team who continue to perform brilliantly on worldwide brands such as Barbie, Halo and Thomas the Tank Engine.”
Melmoth’s Robert Chandler said, “The fact that they have the confidence to allocate equity funding from their slate deal with Dorado for our film is a compliment to both Melmoth and the project itself. We are hopeful that this will be the first of many successful collaborations for the Melmoth-Dorado-Arc team.”
The film is due a Christmas 2014 release.
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