Did you watch Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and think, “yeah this is fine, but where’s Christopher Robin?” No? Well, it doesn’t matter, because that’s what you’re getting. And not playful Christopher either, we’re getting “quarter-life crisis” Christopher Robin who has animal friends “who live in a drug-induced portal” outside of his “derelict apartment complex.” Doesn’t that sound fun?
The movie will be a live-action/animation hybrid, and will probably look something like the hallucinations Black Noir suffers from in the hit Amazon show The Boys. The movie is being developed by Boat Rocker Studios, per Variety.
The script was written by Charlie Kesslering (Most Likely To) and Conrad Vernon (Sausage Party) will direct the pilot. Nick Nantell, the executive vice president of creative affairs for Boat Rocker Studios, Scripted, said “There are few characters more iconic and known the world over for their adventures together than Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh.”
While that’s true, do we really need another gritty Winnie the Pooh remake? Wasn’t the one where Pooh and Piggy murder a lot of people enough? Shamier Anderson and Stephan James’ from Bay Mills Studios are also producing the series, and they said it takes “everything you think you know about Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and creates something completely fresh and undeniably funny.”
The reason we’re getting another off-brand Winnie project us because the copyright protection for the story, originally written by British author A.A. Milne, ran out in 2022. I guess it’s only a matter of time before we get Winnie the Pooh in Space.
There’s no release date for the movie just yet but we’ll keep you posted.
