It seems that this Nutcracker film is deviating from its whimsical fairytale ballet version and is headed for some big time splodey action adventure. Ok, maybe not splodey, but there will be fisticuffs and tomfoolery.
Get The Big Picture says:
New Line bought a pitch from writer Darren Lemke to turn the story into an action-adventure, and the initial rumor was that Robert Zemeckis would make this his next motion-capture movie (or maybe it would follow the remake of Yellow Submarine. There’s no mention of Zemeckis in this new report, however.
I can totally see Nutcracker as an action film, however the gritty realism of kicking ass and taking names might give some less respectable connotations to the title of Nutcracker.
But really, the story is about a toy come to life after dusk on Christmas Eve and enters into a war with the Mouse King and his legion of mice warriors.
Hell ya, bring it on!
