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Everyone's favorite existentialist children's book is coming to the big screen — that's right, The Little Prince is getting a movie. The animated film will be helmed by Kung Fu Panda director
Mark Osborne, with James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Bridges, Marion
Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro and Paul Giamatti lending their voices to
the characters.
In case you've been completely missing out on life and haven't read The Little Prince,
it is about a pilot who crash lands in the Sahara Desert and strikes up
a friendship with a (wait for it) little prince. The prince tells the
pilot about his journeys to different planets, the people he has met on
each one, and the beloved rose he left behind. Following his stories,
the prince teams with the pilot on a quest for water, enduring a fateful
run-in with a snake from his past.
Bridges will voice the pilot, but it hasn't been revealed
which characters the other actors will voice (although we can presume
that Franco will take the titular role, and personally, I hope Marion
Cotillard voices the rose). The film is being produced by Onyx Films'
Aton Soumache, who produced the 2006 animated film Renaissance.
Basically, The Little Prince a story about love,
happiness, and a whole lot of other philosophical meaning-of-life type
things. If you haven't read it, you need to. It will take you 20
minutes, and you will be a better person afterward. You will no longer
see the hat. You will see the boa constrictor digesting the elephant.
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