French animators are going 3-D, announcing a pair of stereoscopic animated feature projects at the Annecy festival ‘ including a new version of Cinderella.
According to Variety, Pascal Herold will co-produce and direct the new version of Cinderella, titled Cendrillon, while Patrice Leconte is planning to make a 3-D animated feature out of Jean Teul’s novel Le magasin des suicides.
Alexandre and Jerome Apergis, Frederic Bolloch and Herold are writing Cendrillon, which will be set in the Wild West. Herold and Family and Belgium’s Nexus are producing the film at Delacave Studio in Paris.
Variety pegs the combined budget for the CGI and 3-D versions at $18.35 million, with 60% of it already financed and the film in production. A 2011 delivery date is planned.
On Le magasin des suicides, Leconte is co-directing with Arthur Qwak (Dragon Hunters) on the project, which has a budget of $21 million. The black comedy novel tells the tale of a family that sells suicide tools in a depressed world.
