Not every filmmaker who casts Zooey Deschanel in their indie debut film make a quick cross over into their next directing gig with a studio project (just looking at this list there have been a few). While I didn’t care for Martin Hynes no-budget, tired road trip formula/calling card of a film (The Go-Getter), I’m glad that he is not stuck in “P” for Park. Hynes’ next directing gig is for 20th Century Fox’s adaptation of a children’s book – the studio has a craving for such material with the upcoming releases of Fantastic Mr. Fox and next year’s Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and also have an appetite for Kate DiCamillo books as was the case with Because of Winn Dixie.
Hynes will adapt the not yet published DiCamillo book entitled The Magician’s Elephant, which centers on impossible things that may happen when a fortune teller tells an orphan boy that an elephant will lead him to his long-lost sister. Long-time family film specialist Julie Pistor will produce the project.
Variety also reports the Hynes is attached to direct from his own script the romance-thriller “4 A.M. Automatic” and he is currently paying the bills by rewriting New Line’s “The Quiet Type” for Michael London and Kent Alterman.
I was wondering what our readers thought of Hynes’ little seen The Go-Getter?
