Bron Animation has picked up the rights to Lois Lowry’s popular children’s novel The Willoughbys. The book will be adapted by animation veterans Kris Pearn and Adam Wood, with Wood also stepping in to direct.
THE WILLOUGHBYS
Follows the four Willoughby children: Timothy, twin brothers Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and little sister Jane, who are abandoned by their oblivious parents and must learn how to create a new family of their own.
Logline: Story (based on the children’s book of the same name) is a parody of classic children’s book cliches of orphaned children, evil parents, magical nannies and other wondrous adventures, as a pair of siblings discover an infant left on their doorstep, but can not be bothered with it, and give it away to the neighboring Candy millinaire, who raises the orphaned child with all the wealth and joy a child could ever desire… to which the two siblings, now decide they want to rid themselves of their evil parents to become orphans as well… unless the nanny can help them see the error of their ways.
