When Eva Green appeared in Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS it was one of those ‘How has this not happened before?’ moments. Burton was probably under the same impression, for he’s now looking to cast her as the lead in his adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. The story is a striking blend of narrative and archive photography and should make an intriguing project for the director. The maker of EDWARD SCISSORHANDS shooting a movie about a group of dispossessed orphans being chased by monsters on a Welsh island? The idea could have been extrapolated from the sweat in his thinking cap.
Green is in talks to play Peregrine, a transmogrifying woman from the 1940s who watches over the younglings of the title. If everything is ironed out it’ll be another eye-catching role for this lovely yet unsettling actress, who is also due to hit cinemas as Ava Lord, the key femme fatale in SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR.
Fox are releasing the picture, which is aiming to start production in February.
Source: Variety
