Drive director behind new BBC collection The Famous Five based mostly on Enid Blyton books
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nid Blyton e-book collection The Famous Five is being tailored by the BBC for the primary time and filming has already began.
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, who directed 2011’s Drive starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, and Peaky Blinders producer Matthew Read have created the present for the broadcaster.
The three-part present The Famous Five will observe 5 younger adventurers who’re exploring the world round them in an odyssey-style story and is being shot throughout the south west of the UK.
Refn, additionally an government producer of the collection who labored with Read on Valhalla Rising, stated: “All my life I’ve fought vigorously to remain a child with a lust for adventure.
“By reimagining The Famous Five, I am preserving that notion by bringing these iconic stories to life for a progressive new audience, instilling the undefinable allure and enchantment of childhood for current and future generations to come.”
Producers, Moonage Pictures, will create the three 90 minute-long instalments to be proven on the BBC within the UK and TF1 in France.
Episode one of many collection has been written by Read, episode two by Priya Okay Dosanjh and episode three has been written by Being Human producer Matthew Bouch and Read.
Patricia Hidalgo, director of BBC kids’s and training, stated that the collection will introduce the books to a brand new technology of kids.
She stated: “Bringing these books to life with a new reimagining of The Famous Five is a real treat for BBC audiences and a celebration of British heritage.
“These stories are loved around the world and bringing families together is a key part of our strategy so we hope it introduces a new generation of viewers to these wonderful adventures.”
Will Gould, co-founder of Moonage Pictures, stated the present can have “adventure at its heart”.
He added: “Moonage Pictures was created to provide the right creative environment to explore ideas without limitation and this provides us with exactly that opportunity… This Famous Five will be a modern, timely and irreverent action series.”
Blyton, additionally behind The Secret Seven, wrote 21 installations of The Famous Five and her first ever e-book, Five On A Treasure Island, was printed in 1942.
There have been quite a few interpretations of The Famous Five over time, together with continuation novels written by French writer Claude Voilier.
TV adaptions have included a earlier ITV collection, which got here out in 1978, a CITV collection that was launched within the Nineties and a 2000s Disney cartoon collection, Famous 5 On The Case.
In latest years, spoof variations of the Famous Five have been offered throughout excessive road shops within the UK that discover satirical themes to do with politics and tradition.