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‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Co-Scribe Lucy Alibar And Guillermo Del Toro Team For ‘The Secret Garden’ At Universal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 5:41pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Guillermo Del Toro, Lucy Alibar, Universal Pictures
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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures beat out four studios today to acquire a pitch for a new film version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden that will be scripted by Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild co-writer Lucy Alibar. She will work closely with Guillermo del Toro, who’ll produce with Mark Johnson. Del Toro and Johnson are re-teaming after they produced the 2011 feature remake of the classic ABC telepic Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark.

There was a swirl of interest in the hope that del Toro could direct, but he’s so busy with his other projects–he opens the big global tent pole Pacific Rim this summer and is working on a sequel; he’s turning Pan’s Labyrinth into a stage musical; he next helms the haunted house pic Crimson Peak; and he’ll direct the pilot for an FX series adaptation of The Strain, the apocalyptic vampire novel he wrote with Chuck Hogan–that del Toro will guide Alibar creatively as producer. Both of them have had success with projects surrounding young people who build fantasy worlds as a way of dealing with loneliness, grief, loss and abandonment (del Toro with Pan’s Labyrinth). In both cases, the girls create mythic threatening beasts they are forced to outmaneuver or stare down. READ MORE »

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‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Co-Writer Lucy Alibar Sets Next Gig At Escape Artists

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 18, 2012 @ 6:32pm PDTTags: Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Cannes Film Festival, Escape Artists, Lucy Alibar
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RELATED: Fox Searchlight Fetes Sundance Sensation ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild At Cannes’

EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Alibar, co-writer of Beasts Of The Southern Wild, has closed a deal to write her next screenplay for Escape Artists. It is an original idea … Read More »

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‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Writer Lucy Alibar Signs With Gersh

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 12:27pm PSTTags: Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Gersh, Lucy Alibar, Sundance

EXCLUSIVE: Alibar and director Benh Zeitlin adapted the 2012 Sundance winner from her play Juicy And Delicious. The Beasts Of The Southern Wild world premiere received a standing ovation at the Eccles Theater early in the festival, … Read More »

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