Regency Enterprises is dipping into the fantasy genre, acquiring Kirby Atkins' script Bagloria with helmer Robert Lederman attached to direct and Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's Tribeca on board to produce. The project, described as a cross between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Harry Potter, centers on a group of kids who find a portal in their classroom closet to a fantasy world called Bagloria. When their teacher is pulled inside, the kids must brave the inhabitants of this world to rescue their teacher and save the school. At Regency, executive vp production Peter Cramer is overseeing for production topper Sanford Panitch. The Tribeca-produced Compleat Female Stage Beauty is in postproduction for Artisan Entertainment. Lederman has directed episodes of The Dead Zone, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Atkins is repped by Broder-Webb-Chervin-Silbermann, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment and attorney Stephen Clark at Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Goodman. He previously penned Spooks, which sold to Miramax Films, and has been working on TV episodes of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
- 10/20/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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