Please someone tell me why I can’t stop singing the title to The Great Ghost Rescue to the tune of the failed northeastern children’s television show “The Great Space Coaster”? It’s been like an hour now, and it just will not go away! Somebody make it stop! PLEASE!
In any event, according to Screen Daily Affinity International has acquired the sales rights heading into Cannes to The Great Ghost Rescue, which is set to begin eight weeks of principal photography in the UK and Hungary next week.
Casting for this kid-friendly slice of spookery thus far includes Georgia Groome, Steven Mackintosh, and newcomer Toby Hall, who will play Humphrey, the ghost of a child whose family has been ousted from their home when their castle gets modernized into a holiday camp.
Yann Samuell (Love Me If You Dare) is on board to direct this big screen adaptation of the Eva Ibbotson book.