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Idris Elba has join the cast of theMouse Guardmovie . While there ’s a batch of incertitude about what comes next in the aftermath ofDisney finalizing its leverage of 21st Century Fox ’s assets this week ( including , 20th Century Fox ) , it appears that Fox’sMouse Guardcomic book film adaption is still going full f number in the lead . The studio apartment has recruit itsMaze Runnertrilogy director Wes Ball to oversee the fancy risky venture and is reportedly spending $ 150 million on the production budget . That goes to show just how serious they are about kicking off a lucrative new franchise here .
Adapted from the bi - monthly comic book series of the same name ( which David Petersen has written and exemplify since 2006),Mouse Guardhas so far assembleda cast that include Andy SerkisandMaze Runnerveteran Thomas Brodie - Sangster as the film ’s opponent and immature wedge , respectively . With cinematography slated to get underway in May , the movie ’s casting hunt is well underway and should be over within the next few calendar week . In the lag , another central role has been satiate .
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According toTHR , Elba has essentially finish a deal to trifle the character Celanawe inMouse Guard . The original comics take blank space in a medievel fantasy earth where computer mouse are protected by the titular order ( a group of highly - specialised warrior mice ) from dangerous predators , like foxes and birds . Celanawe , as it were , is a legendary penis of the Mouse Guard - one also known as " Black Axe " - who , when the floor begins , vanish long ago and has since been dare dead or gone .
Elba , like Serkis and Brodie - Sangster , will bring his character to life-time through gesture - capture , with Weta Digital ( Lord of the Rings , Avatar ) handling the optical effects . While Elba has done voice work in the yesteryear on films like Disney Animation’sZootopia , Pixar’sFinding Dory , and Disney ’s alive - action mechanism / CGIThe Jungle Book(where he lend his vocal music to Shere Khan ) , he ’s less experienced when it come to the art of motion - capturing . Then again , he only just finished shooting his role as Macavity for Tom Hooper’sCatsmusical adjustment , which is speculate to be bringing its feline characters to life story via a combining of motion - capture and pragmatic agency . Regardless , one imagines that an doer as multi - gifted as Elba will have trivial fuss adjusting to the challenge of toy a mo - cap talking shiner .
Beyond that , it ’ll be interesting to see how the members of theMouse Guardturn out in the film itself . Serkis likewise used motion - seizure to bring non - primate animals to life in his ownJungle BookadaptationMowgli : Legend of the Jungle(which debuted on Netflix last yr ) , butthe outcome were arguably unevenand otherwise unsettling compared to the photorealistic CGI critters have in Disney’sJungle Book . UnlikeMowgli , however , the ( Oscar - winning ) digital FX inJungle Bookwere handle by Weta , so that bodes well for their efforts on get the Mouse Guard to cinematic life .
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Mouse Guarddoes not have an prescribed vent date properly now . We ’ll let you know when that changes .
Source : THR
