Ray Bradbury’s THE HALLOWEEN TREE Getting Live-Action Adaptation
Mike Sprague
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Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes author Ray Bradbury’s holiday classic The Halloween Tree is getting a live-action adaptation via Warner Bros. and screenwriter Will Dunn (The Fisherman).
A fantasy novel first published in 1972, it follows Tom and his schoolmates who begin to investigate the strange happenings in their small town on Halloween night. Their friend Pip is abducted by a powerful demon from the Land of the Dead. With the help of an unlikely ally, a mysterious figure named Moundshroud, Tom and his pals must journey into the Land of the Dead to save their friend.
In the book, the boys with Moundshroud pursue their friend across time and space traveling to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and to places such as the Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris, and the Day of the Dead in Mexico. Along the way, they learn the origins of the holiday that they celebrate and the role that the fear of death, ghosts, and the haunts have played in shaping civilization. The Halloween Tree itself, with its many branches laden with jack-o’-lanterns, serves as a metaphor for the historical confluence of these traditions.
Hanna-Barbera previously adapted the story into an animated TV movie back in 1993 with Bradbury writing and narrating. It won the 1994 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.
42 will produce this adaptation with Charlie Morrison.
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