Mouse Guard, written and illustrated by David Petersen, is the story of an order of mice sworn to protect a medieval realm from all enemies and threats. It’s wonderful, has won two Eisner Awards, and courtesy of Fox is getting a long-overdue film adaptation.
Now, that adaptation has its stars. As Hollywood Reporter reports, Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Maze Runner) will be playing Lieam, one of the newest and youngest members of the Guard, while Andy Serkis will be the villainous Midnight, a blacksmith who turns against the guard. The film will be directed by Wes Ball, who made the Maze Runner films.
As the premise implies, the whole thing will be shot using motion capture (though the precise animation style is yet to be confirmed, here’s hoping for something more stylised than plain ol’ CGI mice), which makes Serkis’s casting a natural choice. Hopefully he’ll get more to do here than in his last turn as big CGI baddie.
No release date is announced, but production of the film is slated to begin this May.
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Love Mouse Guard but am worried about the director because the Maze Runner films were just bland & boring.
Yeah that worries me too. Mouseguard is awesome because it takes itself seriously within the framework it establishes (and also epic mouse vs snake battles), and I worry the Maze Runner dude will turn it into a tween film with an overarching “message” about being good to short people or something.
Then again, I’m assuming he was paid to crap out those Maze Runner films by execs who just wanted to cash in on serialised films based on young adult literature (as per the then tradition), so who knows if those films are a good indication of his skill.