Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

3/1/11 - Tim Burton and Josh Brolin are teaming up to bring The Hunchback of Notre Dame to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Warner Bros. is developing the project and is bringing on board scribes Kieran and Michele Mulroney.  Hunchback, an 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, tells the story of Quasimodo, a deformed and hunchbacked bell-ringer of the Norte Dame cathedral who tragically falls in love with beautiful gypsy named Esmerelda.  The book features Quasimodo fighting off troops, love and betrayal, a hanging, a swing off a belltower and bodies and graves galore; in short, stuff that seems tailor-made for Burton.

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