EXCLUSIVE: La Haine filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz is returning to the director’s chair to make English-language passion project The Big War, which will mark the first movie he has helmed in 13 years. “This is a project I’ve been working on for twenty years,” Kassovitz explained about the live action-animation hybrid project, which he has scripted with The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands scribe Caroline Thompson. “It is inspired by cult French graphic novel La Bete Est Morte, which was written during the Second World War,” says the Frenchman, also known for starring in movies including Amélie and Munich and hit TV series Le Bureau Des Legendes. “It reimagines that war as enacted by animals.
The Nazis are the wolves who go after the ‘vermin’ — the rabbits — who represent the war’s victims. The story focuses on two rabbits who go after their family who have been taken away and on their journey they discover adventures and more rabbits who join their cause.” “It’s a heartfelt, lovely story,” scribe Thompson told us. “We’ve been passing it between ourselves for quite a while.
Mathieu is a wonderful person to work with and this has nudged me back into writing.” The project now has fresh impetus with producer and animation specialist Aton Soumache aboard.
Soumache is best known for big-budget animated projects such as The Little Prince and Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie. “I’m shooting the movie with real locations and set-pieces and then the animal characters will be dropped in, so I’ll be shooting a movie that will be delivered to the animators,” says Kassovitz. “We’re now in the design phase and looking for financiers and want to start production by the end of the year.
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