How do you outwit a Twit?

[Petra Pan]

According to a report at Variety.com, John
Williams (a producer on SHREK) has just sold a
pitch to Disney based on the Roald Dahl classic
illustrated children's book THE TWITS.  Script
will be written by John Cleese (FIERCE CREATURES)
and Kirk De Micco (QUEST FOR CAMELOT).

I never did actually read this title!  Looking at
the back cover,

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141301074/ref=lib_rd_next_9/103-9496538-4027820?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=9#reader-link

"Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, 
nastiest, ugliest people in the
world. They hate everything -- except 
playing mean jokes on each other, catching
innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, 
and making their caged monkeys, the 
Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads 
all day.  But the Muggle-Wumps have 
had enough. They don't just want out, 
they want revenge."

Muggle-Wumps, eh?  Cleese certainly seem to have
an affinity for muggles...  :)

Quoted on that site:

Cleese, in a statement, said: "When my daughter
Camilla was about 8, it was absolutely our
favorite book to read," but while THE TWITS was
"great on character, (it was) just short on plot.
So Kirk and I worked up a scenario that we
thought was funny, and happily so did Disney."

Sounds like wicked fun to me.

Petra
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n  :)


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