Apple signs “Thor: Ragnarok” director Taika Waititi to work on the “Time Bandits” series

Apple is turning the 1981 Terry Gilliam-directed fantasy cinema “Time Bandits” into a novel master copy serial as well as we’re hearing it’s signed manager Taika Waititi who worked on “Thor: Ragnarok”.

Apple’s adaptation, currently inwards development, volition live on co-produced yesteryear Paramount TV, Anonymous Content as well as Media Rights Capital. Waititi volition non simply similar a shot but likewise co-write the airplane pilot as well as executive arrive at amongst Gilliam as well as producer Dan Halsted.

Here’s the plot, briefly, courtesy of Variety:

The master copy cinema told the crazy, multi-dimensional even of an English linguistic communication youngster, Kevin, who discovers his wardrobe contains a fourth dimension hole.

A grouping of vi dwarfs come upward through the hole as well as continue to Pb Kevin on a serial of adventures across history, making stops inwards ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, Napoleonic times as well as the early on 1900s, earlier confronting Evil when they brand it at the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness.

The cinema starred Gilliam’s boyfriend Monty Python collaborator John Cleese, every bit good every bit Sean Connery as well as ‘The Lord of the Rings’ histrion Ian Holm.

The master copy Time Bandits cinema starred Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Peter Vaughn as well as David Warner.

The master copy Time Bandits cinema was made yesteryear Handmade Films, the cinema production fellowship that onetime Beatles guitarist George Harrison hatched with Denis O’Brien. After the fellowship dissolved over mounting debt, “Time Bandits” remained a quirky cult favorite for years to come.

Apple should kickoff releasing its master copy programming projects later this year.

Image courtesy of Handmade Films / The Kobal Collection

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