Pete Hedges' new fantasy fable is coming together quickly. We reported a few weeks ago that Jennifer Garner was attached to star, and now comes the news that she'll be joined in The Odd Life of Timothy Green by Joel Edgerton{
Edgerton (soon to be seen in The Thing) will play Garner's husband, and the father of the titular child. Previous reports hinted that young Timothy was some sort of strange musical prodigy, but the Heat Vision Blog describes the story centring on a childless couple who wish for a baby via a box-burying ritual in their back yard and wake up to find that they have a child, but that he's not all he appears.
We may be reaching and wildly speculating here, but that's starting to sound like a reworking of Otesánek, the Czech folktale about a childless couple who "acquire" a weird baby that eats anything and everything it comes into contact with (including several people). It was previously filmed by Jan Švankmajer as Little Otik in 2000. The name Timothy Green would certainly chime with the fact that Otik was made of wood and leaves.
There's no mention of the voracious eating so far though, and the story as it stands is being attributed to Ahmet Zappa, the son of Frank. Maybe that's where the music comes in...
The screenplay is by Hedges, and shooting on the $40m project starts early next year.