The Hollywood
Reporter announced in June 2002 that while Tortoise
and the Hare had "failed to cross the finish line after script
troubles," DreamWorks Pictures and Aardman were giving it another go, this
time with the claymation comedy Flushed Away.
Directed by: Peter Lord and Sam Fell
Written by: Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais
Production Start on: 2005
A highrise-dwelling fat rat leaves the posh life when he accidentally
gets flushed down the toilet and into the sewer where he makes new friends
and learns how the other half lives.
The Hollywood
Reporter announced in June 2002 that while Tortoise
and the Hare had "failed to cross the finish line after script
troubles," DreamWorks Pictures and Aardman were giving it another go, this
time with the claymation comedy Flushed Away.
Aardman referred
to the project as Ratropolis even though it was revealed to the
press under the name of Flushed Away.
The studio closed
a deal with writing pair Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais in June 2002 to
pen the Flushed screenplay, which will center on a pampered British
rat who accidentally gets flushed from his posh penthouse flat into the
slimy London sewers. As he searches for a way home, he falls in love with
the sewer and its inhabitants.
Sam Fell will
direct the project, with Aardman topper Peter Lord handling producing duties.
No voice talent has yet been signed for roles in the project. DreamWorks
animation executive Lance Young is overseeing. The writers, who are well-known
British TV writers, have written The Commitments and done production
work on several films for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, including Pearl
Harbor and The Rock.
While Aardman
has not decided whether the project will be done entirely as claymation
or include some computer-generated sequences, a spokesman for the studio
said Aardman is "casting its net far and wide around the globe to recruit
the best people to work on its films, whether they are claymation or not."
Variety revealed
in August 2003 that Peter Lord, the co-director of Chicken
Run, was developing this project about "two rats whose lives take
a turn for the better when they are washed down a sewer and up into a penthouse."
The plan is to start shooting early in 2005, once the movie is finished.
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