Steven Spielberg to direct Harvey
Story by Jack Foley
STEVEN Spielberg is to direct a new version of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey, which was previously been turned into a film starring Jimmy Stewart.
The story follows a man named Elwood P Dowd and his friendship with a 6ft 1inch tall invisible rabbit and how it affects his family and community.
The original play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 before being turned into a classic movie in 1950 by Universal Pictures.
This latest version will be based on a screenplay by best-selling novelist Jonathan Tropper and a partnership between Spielberg’s DreamWorks company and Twentieth Century Fox.
Variety reports that now Spielberg has committed to the project as director, casting and pre-production will begin immediately with a view to getting the cameras rolling in early 2010.
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