) may soon return to screens courtesy of Paramount.
Robert C. O'Brien's "Rats of NIMH" won the Newbery Medal in 1972 and has been a staple in children's bookstores and libraries since. The story centers on a mouse -- the titular Mrs. Frisby, re-named Mrs. Brisby in the MGM movie -- faced with a crisis when her son falls ill and she must move her family to escape a farmer's plow. Mrs. Frisby enlists a group of former lab rats, whom she soon discovers run a highly evolved society, who possess advanced technologies and divide labor in the manner of a human community. [EDIT} It's likely the new "NIMH" would combine live-action and animation in the manner of "Alvin & the Chipmunks" and other kiddie hybrids....contextualizes THR HERE. ILLUSIONIST director Neil Burger would script the new project (and direct?). Don Bluth previously adapted this material THE SECRET OF NIMH in 1982 (HERE
) - this is what it looked like back then:
