James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Bridges among voice cast for Little Prince feature directed by Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne.
James Franco, RachelMcAdams, Jeff Bridges, Benicio Del Toro, Mackenzie Foy and Paul Giamatti are on board to voice characters in The Little Prince, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter. The animated feature is an adaptation of the classic French novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Mark Osborne, who directed Kung Fu Panda, is directing the project, which is being produced by Onyx Films’ Aton Soumache -- who produced the stylish 2006 animated film Renaissance -- and Dimitri Rassam.
The story centers on a pilot who crash-lands in the Sahara desert and comes across a little boy who says he is a prince fallen to Earth from his home on an asteroid. As the pilot repairs his plane, the little prince regales him with stories about his home and the foolish inhabitants of nearby asteroids.
Bridges will voice the pilot. It was not revealed which roles the other actors were taking on. Marion Cotillard has the offer to voice the part of a rose.
The book, published Le Petit Prince in 1943 and translated from French into dozens of languages, proved to be a hit due to its philosophical nature, appealing to both adults and children.
The property has been adapted for both film and TV a number of times. Paramount brought a live-action version of the book to the big screen in 1974 that was directed by Stanley Donen. The book most recently inspired a French TV series that began airing in 2010.
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
