The timeless youngsters’s e-book collection, Magic Tree Home, will lastly come to life on screens in a brand new animated collection.
After 33 years, the basic and beloved Magic Tree Home collection, written by Mary Pope Osborne, is getting an animated adaptation by means of a collaboration with leisure tech firm Spuree and TV manufacturing studio Rideback. In keeping with the writer, she shall be a artistic companion on the mission as she desires to be concerned within the course of and be certain that the studios will do her books justice.
Osborne revealed the explanation it took her over three a long time to lastly comply with have Magic Tree Home tailored for tv in an interview with Selection. She wished to attend for the fitting folks to tackle the mission as a substitute of simply handing it to the primary studio that made a proposal. The writer wished to collaborate with individuals who she knew would truly let her have artistic management over a collection that she holds so close to and expensive to her coronary heart.
She added that she was so grateful that Spuree and Rideback got here to her. She praised them for not permitting her to have a “actual seat on the desk,” as a substitute of eradicating her from the artistic course of. She talked about that that is one thing that’s extremely uncommon for writers who’ve their work tailored and that she is grateful to have the ability to have a say within the choices that shall be made for the TV present.
For a few years, I’ve been on the lookout for
the fitting alternative to adapt my books right into a collection for the display in a means that may permit me an actual seat on the desk — an expertise authors nearly by no means have when their work is tailored for different media. However now, lastly, because of the forward-thinking groups at Spuree and Rideback, I’m in a position to have that and produce my handpicked artistic staff together with me to comprehend my long-held dream of bringing ‘Magic Tree Home’ books to the display in a means that feels true to their spirit.
Whereas Magic Tree Home by no means had any on-screen variations, it has had a number of musicals based mostly on it. Eight of the Magic Tree Home’s musicals have been scored by award-winning composer Randy Courts, who may also be offering unique music for the upcoming collection. Courts has been honored with an AT&T New Performs Award, a number of ASCAP Well-liked Panel Awards, and acquired an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Greatest Musical.
The animated collection shall be launched on digital and streaming platforms. Spuree and Osborne additionally plan to take the present worldwide as a result of she already has a longtime worldwide fanbase who would seemingly love to observe the present.
There’s at present no confirmed launch date or streaming platform for Magic Tree Home on the time of this text’s publication.