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Matthew Warchus to Direct ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ Movie With Script From Enda Walsh
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Matthew Warchus will direct the new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with a script from Enda Walsh, Eon Productions and Amazon MGM announced Thursday.

Warchus is best known as the director of 2022’s Matilda the Musical and 2014’s Pride. Walsh is known for 2024’s Small Things Like These.

Originated as a bedtime story by Ian Fleming (written for his son Casper), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was adapted into a screenplay by Roald Dahl, Ken Hughes with Richard Maibaum in 1968. The film — today a beloved classic — starred Dick Van Dyke and was directed by Hughes. The titular song, by the Sherman Brothers, earned an Academy Award nomination.

The new film is in early stages of development, Eon and Amazon said Thursday. In the original movie, Van Dyke played the widowed inventor Caractacus Potts and his two children, Jeremy (Adrian Hall) and Jemima (Heather Ripley). Together with the heiress to the Scrumptious candy empire,...
See full article at The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
  • 12/20/2024
  • by Zoe G. Phillips
  • The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News

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