Illumination’s Chris Meledandri To Re-Animate ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas’

COMMENTS (15)

• Without a doubt, this is something that does NOT need to happen.

  Comment by KC — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 6:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• At the very tippy-top of the things, son,
  Not even a studio grinch wants to see redone.

  Comment by Jean Robie — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 6:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• The original is so well done with perfect VoiceOver talent (Boris Karloff), excellent lyrics (“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch), great music and animation – it will be hard to top it. Nonetheless, I’m curious to see what a new version would bring to an old favorite especially since they will need to extend the original story to release it theatrically. Hope they allocate the budget and resources to do it right.

  Comment by Eric Martinez — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 6:27pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Chuck and Ted Geisel vastly expanded the book into the 22 minutes they needed for the 1965 TV special. The problem with the live action version (besides Jim Carey), was that there isn’t enough in the original story to support a feature and so the supplemental material is necessary and detracts from the simplicity and elegance of the book and of Chuck’s version. I cannot imagine that Meledandri can do any better than the live action feature though he certainly cannot do any worse. And who in the world is Pete Candleland?

    A shame that they feel the need to do this. Sigh…

    Comment by Tooner — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 6:40pm PST  Reply to this post

    • Pete Canderland is a well respect creative talented Director in the world of commercials as well as being well known for being the director for all the Gorillaz video.

      if your curious to see what he has done…………have a look here

      http://vimeo.com/petecandeland

      what do you think?

      Comment by Mike Sofo — Monday February 11, 2013 @ 8:28am PST  Reply to this post

• Who will do the narration: Justin Bieber?

  Which “Celebrity-Of-The-Month” will voice the character?

  Maybe you can re-paint the Mona Lisa when you’re finished.

  Comment by NO!! NO!! NO!! — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 6:45pm PST  Reply to this post

• All of you grinches are very very wrong,

  Here in Studioville this is our new song,

  We remake everything not once but twice,

  Don’t write anything mean, please be nice.

  Our stockings are hung by the chimney with care,

  In hope that the audience will want to go there,

  We only do remakes because it’s easy you see,

  Our jobs are in jeopardy and we need security.

  So when you’re in doubt there’s no need to shout,

  We’re rebooting the Grinch, without him we’re out.

  Comment by Grinch had a heart five sizes too small — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 6:50pm PST  Reply to this post

• Chris Meledandri is a class act, but this could be sooooo wrong.

  Comment by Gawd Ahmighty — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 7:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• And in separate news Disney announced that they’re going to re-animate Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. And Warner Bros is going to remake Casablanca. And Sony is going to do an animated version of Gone With The Wind. And…

  Comment by Xeroxer — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 8:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• I am looking forward to all of the P.C. changes. First, the name needs to go. It needs to be called, “The slightly agitated fellow that borrowed a non-denominational holiday without clearly having permission.”

  Comment by Brian G. — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 8:20pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Hey, 1992 called. It wants its edgy humor back.

    Comment by AT&T — Friday February 8, 2013 @ 10:30am PST  Reply to this post

• Unless it’s Studio Gibli doing the reanimation, I don’t see a strong reason why it needs to be done in the first place.

  Comment by showfiz — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 9:35pm PST  Reply to this post

• you are all fucking losers quit crying

  Comment by 8===D ~ ~ ~ — Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 10:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• There is nothing in Meledandri’s resume that suggests any real creative talent. His place in the world seems to be packaging content for money.

  Comment by Justin — Friday February 8, 2013 @ 7:04am PST  Reply to this post

• WOW….I JUST DON’T KNOW!

  On ONE HAND, I am very pleased to see hollywood not giving up on big-screen Christmas movies. After ‘Fred Claus’, ‘Arthur Christmas’ and ‘Riseof the Guardians’ underperform, I’m glad to see faith in a heart-warming genre!

  OTHER HAND, I REALLY REALLY LIKE the jim Carrey live-action movie. It adds a different, expanded-story take on the classic book. It seems an aquired-taste for some fellow-seuss-fans, but unless they add ‘Where Are You Christmas’ I kinda don’t know how this animated remake will measure up…

  One things for sure, like Horton and Grinch 2000 this will require MAJOR plot expansion in order to make it last longer that an hour

  HERE’S AN IDEA! Maybe treat it as a sequel to ron howards movie, bring back Jim Carrey, Christine Berranski, and jeff tambor to do VOs and continue on the footing of the original film…

  Comment by Iron Will — Friday February 8, 2013 @ 9:53am PST  Reply to this post