Barry Sonnenfeld, a man renowned for making great comedies (Men In Black, The Addams Family, Get Shorty) and…um… other things (coughWildWildWestcough) is getting ready to play in Andrew Henry’s Meadow.
The 20th Century Fox film is adapted from Doris Burns’ 1965 children’s tome about a young inventor who escapes from dreamy suburbia into a beautiful meadow where he builds a utopian society in the trees. Some kids would be happy with tree houses, but not this one…
The script is a passion project of Andrew Braff, who wrote the script with a little help from a certain Scrubs and Garden State-starring brother (Zach, for anyone still unaware). It sounds like the perfect whimsical material that Sonnenfeld does well, so there’s reason to be hopeful.