The forthcoming remake of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” prepares to take flight with director Matthew Warchus (“Matilda the Musical,” “Satisfaction”) boarding the manufacturing.

Tony and Olivier award winner Warchus will direct the movie, based mostly on the basic kids’s story a few magical flying automobile, from a script by Tony winner Enda Walsh (“Small Issues Like These”).

The brand new film, which Eon Productions and Amazon MGM Studios introduced earlier this month, is within the early phases of improvement. The mission builds on the partnership between the studio and the “James Bond” producers amid their seek for the brand new MI6 agent following Daniel Craig’s retirement from the function, following 2021’s “No Time to Die.”

Initially written by Bond creator Ian Fleming as a bedtime story for his son Casper, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was tailored for the massive display in 1968. Dick Van Dyke starred within the kid-friendly musical fantasy movie, directed by Ken Hughes, produced by Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and written by Roald Dahl, Ken Hughes and Richard Maibaum. The story adopted widowed odd-ball inventor Caractacus Potts (Van Dyke) and his kids, who salvage a scrapped racing automobile with magical skills in pre-war England. The movie’s title music was nominated for an Oscar.

English theater director and filmmaker Warchus already has a confirmed observe report in relation to the works of Roald Dahl after efficiently directing “Matilda the Musical” for each stage and the massive display. The 2022 film was nominated for a BAFTA for excellent British movie, his second nomination following 2015’s “Satisfaction.” Warchus has been the creative director of London’s The Previous Vic since 2015, the place below his tenure (he introduced plans to step down in 2026), the theater has given world premieres to greater than two dozen works, and transferred many productions to the West Finish and Broadway.

Walsh is an Irish playwright and screenwriter whose acclaimed works embrace 2008’s “Starvation” (which he co-wrote with director Steve McQueen), “Jules within the Metropolis” (based mostly on the life and music of Rufus Wainwright) and the books for the musicals “As soon as,” for which he received a Tony Award, and “Sing Road.”