Artemis Fowl, the fictional boy genius who spawned eight bestselling books by Eoin Colfer, is finally getting his own movie. Fans of the books first heard the series would hit the big screen back in 2001, shortly after the first novel was released.
It has been fourteen years since the book rights were first sold to Miramax films, before Disney got ahold of the rights For a while, development on the movie appeared to have effectively been halted, when writer-director Jim Sheridan left the project; however, thereafter Disney got involved, along with Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal as executive producers. The Mouse House now appears to have found a new director for the project too, in Kenneth Branagh.
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