You know, there just are not enough movies about Garden Gnomes. Gnomes need love too! They should make one based on the Romeo and Juliet story and set it to the hits of Elton John.
Oh look. They are! Emily Blunt and James McAvoy will voice the animated feature Gnomeo and Juliet.
The film will feature several John classics but not Kate Winslet; she was first attached to voice Juliet two years ago and fell out because of scheduling conflicts. Tim Rice also was approached to write original songs with his “Lion King” partner John at the time, but the soundtrack now will be filled with the performer’s well-known hits and possibly a few new tracks.
In the loose and edgy adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, McAvoy (Wanted) and Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) would play lovers from rival gardens. John, who is producing alongside his offscreen partner David Furnish, Baker Bloodworth and Steve Hamilton Shaw, is said to be pursuing big-name talent to voice supporting roles.
Really, if you are going to retell the same old story you have to have an original twist. Garden sculptures in love? How can that fail??
I just wonder if this will be a tragic tale with McAvoy’s Gnomeo staging a career with Travelocity to escape the garden and Blunt’s Juliet drinks pesticide poison in her grief only to have Gnomeo return to find his love slain and throws himself into a chipper?
Just sayin.
