NZ director of Shrek Andrew Adamson to produce new live action-CGI movie
Adamson was given a New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Kiwi director Andrew Adamson is to produce a major live action-CGI fantasy film in a New Zealand-Chinese co-production worth up to NZ$58 million.
He will join producer Tim White to make Shelved, a movie about two slacker robots that fret about being replaced by humans.
Academy Award-winning Adamson, now based in Los Angeles, is the creative force behind blockbusters Shrek, Shrek 2 and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
It's expected Shelved would be the first of several films to come from a partnership between Chinese fund Super Entertainment and New Zealand effects and services company Digipost.
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Digipost has been involved in productions such as Beyond the Edge, a feature film depicting Sir Edmund's journey to the summit of Everest, and television series Spartacus.
Shelved will expand on the 2013 award-winning short film of the same title by director James Cunningham and writer Kathryn Burnett.
Cunningham and Burnett will reprise their roles on the feature.
The New Zealand Film Commission revealed the project on Tuesday at the Shanghai International Film Festival, according to Variety Magazine.
Auckland-based financier Elizabeth Zhong, who recently acquired Digipost, is behind the deal which also involves White's Southern Light Films and Super Entertainment.
The film is likely to be structured as an 80:20 New Zealand-majority venture, Variety reported.
- Stuff
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