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Disney’s Live-Action Tinkerbell Movie Is Going To Be A Lot Like Elf

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:45 am, January 19th

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She’ll be starring in The Hunger Games in just a few months but Elizabeth Banks is already gearing up for another role, that of Tinkerbell is Disney’s live-action adaptation. As if we weren’t excited enough about this project, currently being written by Marti Noxon, things just got better. Banks has compared the film Tink to the Jon Favreau/Will Ferrell comedy, Elf. Hear what Banks had to say. 

Banks spoke with MovieHole about what to expect from Tink. “It’s a live action Tinkerbell movie sort of in the vein of Elf in which I would play Tinkerbell,” she said. “Tinkerbell gets thrown out of Never Never Land, and it’s about where she goes and who she meets and the adventures she has.”

I don’t know about you, but this concept has me really excited. Banks is a fantastic actress no matter what role she’s in but I feel she really shines doing comedy.

Noxon, who is rewriting the script for Disney, previously spoke about the project which is still in the very early stages. She compared it to Enchanted, a very similar fish-out-of-water scenario., “It’s about her coming to the real world in a non-fairy form. That’s about all I can say about it.”

Though Noxon said part of what attracted her to the project was gender politics. “It’s hard to write or even find a movie for eight- or nine-year-old girls that isn’t about, ya’ know, ‘I need a boyfriend!’ I mean, Tinkerbell has a job! She’s one of the few characters in that fantasy world that actually has a job,” she said, “I have a seven-year-old daughter and I want more movies for her where afterward I don’t have to make something up like, ‘You know, the job of running a kingdom is really hard work, and she and the Prince are going to have to communicate a lot.’”

“Tinkerbell is one of the greatest characters because she’s mischievous and snarky and fun and sexy and jealous and vengeful,” said Banks of the lovable fairy.

You’ll see Banks playing Effie Trinket March 23 when The Hunger Games is released and the actress has a few more films in post-production but as I mentioned, Tink is still in its infancy. Banks added, “We’re in script stage and everybody is really excited and blah, blah, doesn’t mean anything. You might as well not even write it down because who knows, it might not even happen.”

Make it happen, Disney. Make. It. Happen.

(via /Film)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=681460421 Lauron Haney

    MAKE IT HAPPEN, DISNEY!

    (caps intentional and hopefully do not make me come off as psychotic)

  • Nick Gaston

    Blast…no Mae Whitman?

  • Anonymous

    The fact that this movie is being touted as “Elf, but with a girl” isn’t very exciting to me.  It sounds like they’re making an excuse to show us the exact same thing we’ve already seen, yet again.  I’ll reserve judgement for when the ball starts actually rolling on this project..  And when I get over the fact the lead isn’t Mae Whitman.

  • Anonymous

    I get it’s cheaper and everything to have it inevitably set in New York, but Neverland is one of the coolest fictional places. It is specifically designed for adventure. Kind of sad to see escapist wonderment dismissed for Elf/Enchanted mainstream laughs.

  • Anonymous

    What exactly is Tinkerbell’s job, Marti Noxon? Because “being obsessive and jealous over Peter Pan” isn’t a career.

  • Lisa Jonte

    Comparing it to Elf means I’ll never, ever watch it.

  • http://twitter.com/Saronai Saronai Doya

    It gives me hope that Noxon wants to offer her daughter more in a movie script than the quest for a boyfriend.

    Watching any live-action Disney tv-show with my son, however, throws that hope right into the don’t get your hopes up zone.  Still plenty of time for the non-script-writing workers to muck things up.

    Seriously, even when Disney has a tough girl who can kick all the boys arses, the next minute she’s whining about her hair or needing a much better looking outfit and the smart kids are still ruthlessly being made fun of and pushed down the totem pole (and the fat kid is eating ridiculously huge pieces of food ALL the time).  Meanwhile, the Daria within raises an eyebrow and asks “You’re kidding me, right?” *flips channel to sick sad world*

  • Anonymous

    Explain to me how you do a movie about Tinkerbell and not cast Kristin Chenoweth.

    She’s even the right size!

  • http://twitter.com/Meralis Lisa Hayes

    cvsparkles – Watch the new tinkerbell movies. All the fairies have jobs. Tinkerbell is an inventor.

  • http://ladymercury-10.livejournal.com/ Maiasaura

    Haven’t they done this already?  Wasn’t Enchanted essentially Elf with a girl?

  • http://twitter.com/burntbythesea Amanda Allen

    Still agreeing with everyone here that Mae Whitman should be Tink… Not that I don’t like EB, but she’s…kinda old to play Tink….

  • Frodo Baggins

    And wasn’t Elf essentially Miracle on 34th St, but mediocre?

  • Frodo Baggins

    Seriously. She’s gonna be jealously vying for the attention of… a twelve-year-old boy? STRANGER DANGER.

  • Frodo Baggins

    Her?

  • Robyn Sturtevant

    She’s a tinker. I don’t believe we’ve ever seen her fixing things, but that is her job.