Simon Beaufoy Was Approached For Wolverine 2, Writing DreamWorks Animation’s Truckers - We Have The Story Details!
By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2009 8:45 pm EST
Moving on, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter has finally chosen his next project, and its not a Wolverine prequel sequel. Beaufoy is working on a screenplay for DreamWorks Animation’s Truckers, which THR claims is in the early of stages of development and that no character or plot information has been revealed BUT they are wrong. The film has been in development at the studio since at least 2001, originally with Shrek director Andrew Adamson attached to write and direct, but went on to helm Shrek 2 instead before moving on to the Chronicles of Narnia films. So what is Truckers about? Details after the jump.
Truckers is based on Terry Pratchett’s best-selling fantasy books known as The Bromeliad Trilogy. Truckers is the title of the first of the three books. The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now struggle to survive in the world hidden among humans. They find an artifact known as “The Thing” which teaches them about their secret history and make plans to return home. Obviously, this project has been in development for almost a decade, and as THR mentions, the scripting process for an animated film is very much a back and forth collaborative process between storyboard artists, so the end result could be completely different.
