'Penguins' duo pitch projects
Lioud to direct first feature
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“Penguins” producer Christophe Lioud will helm his first feature, “The Blue Book,” currently in pre-production. The crew traveled to India last month to scout locations and plan to start production in November 2009 for a June 2010 release.
A fantasy inspired by “The Neverending Story” and Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” the pic will be shot in English with an international cast.
“Everybody keeps asking us when we’ll make a ‘March of the Penguins’ sequel but we want to surprise people and take risks,” Lioud said. “And the success of ‘March’ has given us considerable leverage.”
Plot is about a child who grows up in a kingdom plagued by an oppressive regime and escapes into a fantasy world, empowering him to fight the terror and save the other children.
Luc Jacquet, who directed “March,” is pitching “La Fresque,” a historical film set 40,000 years ago. It chronicles the lives of men who painted their observations of nature in caves. The pic, which Jacquet explained will share similarities with Jean-Jacques Arnaud-helmed “Quest for Fire,” will span more than 35,000 years.
“I’m doing a considerable amount of research for this film but I don’t want it to look like a documentary,” said Jacquet. “I’d like it to be more of a philosophical reflection on art and the rapport between nature vs. culture.”
