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Oscar-winner Sarah Polley is in talks to direct a live-action Bambi film for Disney.According to Deadline, the writer-director, who recently won the Academy award for best adapted screenplay for Women Talking, is in discussions with the studio on the project which would use photorealistic CGI.The film was initially announced in 2020 with Captain Marvel screenwriter Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser writer Lindsey Beer attached. It’s unclear if the screenplay will remain the same.The news follows…

Image: Walt Disney Animation StudiosIt was only a matter of time before we got to see Bambi’s mom die in “live-action” glory. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesDeadline reports that Disney has officially started getting together a team to make audiences cry and traumatize a new generation with a Bambi adaptation from Oscar-winning Women Talking filmmaker Sarah Polley. Bambi follows the trend of Disney classics getting the live-action treatment—something that seems unlikely…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSarah Polley was left momentarily confused after receiving a letter asking her to return her recently won Oscar.However, the writer-director, who shot to fame as an actor in the 1990s, swiftly realised the letter was written by the Academy, but by her 11-year-old child as part of an April Fools’ Day prank.Sharing the letter on Twitter, Polley wrote: “My eleven-year-old swung low for…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSarah Polley was left momentarily confused after receiving a letter asking her to return her recently won Oscar.However, the writer-director, who shot to fame as an actor in the 1990s, swiftly realised the letter was written by the Academy, but by her 11-year-old child as part of an April Fools’ Day prank.Sharing the letter on Twitter, Polley wrote: “My eleven-year-old swung low for…

The disturbing material that serves as the backdrop of Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel, “Women Talking,” might make the average moviegoer reluctant to consider seeing it. It’s loosely based on horrific crimes in a Mennonite community in Bolivia, where women were drugged and raped by men from their community. But the film, like the book itself, finds light within the darkness and draws its power and inspiration from candid conversations between a tightly-knit group of fictional female survivors as…

When Sarah Polley was four years old she entertained her Christian kindergarten class with a rendition of the Monty Python song Sit on My Face. “I love to hear you oralise / When you’re between my thighs … ” she chirruped, to the delight of her libertarian parents, who denied all responsibility when they were called to account by the school.At the age of eight, egged on by her superfan dad, she auditioned for a new fantasy adventure movie by the Pythons’ Terry Gilliam. She was already the veteran of a handful of horror…