An animated Japanese film adaptation of Mary Pope Osborne‘s Magic Tree House book series will premiere in Japan in January.
Osborne’s series became a huge hit nearly twenty years ago, selling upwards of 100 million books across the globe.
As Reuters details, she had always been reluctant to sign away the rights to a film version of her stories, But she was impressed with the vision of the Japanese filmmakers, who visited Osborne and her husband in the United States to show them the script and illustrations for the movie, and felt confident they would make a good film.
More details about the upcoming film:
The film, produced by Media Factory and set to be released in Japan in January, follows Jack and his little sister Annie, who discover a tree house filled with books in fictional Frog Creek, Pennsylvania. In the early books, Jack is eight years old and Annie seven.
When Jack points to a picture in a book on dinosaurs and the siblings are suddenly transported to prehistoric times, they realize that the tree house is magical and can take them to any time and place in history they wish to visit.
For more about the movie’s impending release, read the Reuters post.
Below, enjoy a short teaser trailer for the film, which is being produced by Media Factory.
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