Gnomeo and Juliet - back on!
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Anyone remembering the project that was to be Elton John’s return to Disney animated movies? After the worldwide smash hit “Lion King” Elton John had announced his interest in actually producing an animated feature and preparational work started on “GNOMEO and JULIET”.
While “Lion King” disguised its roots in the classic works of Shakespeare rather well, “Gnome and Juliet” was - as the title already hinted at - to be a rather close, albei edgier take on Shakespeare’s eternal classic “Romeo and Juliet”. To add a fantastic, new twist the movie was supposed to be set in the world of garden gnomes… However, despite Elton John’s involvement the project stalled soon enough. Everybody expected it to have silently died in the meantime … but now the project has returned …
