Tag: The Wind in the Willows

  • Julian Fellowes to adapt ‘The Wind In The Willows’

    Julian Fellowes to adapt ‘The Wind In The Willows’

    Weta on board; shooting to take place in New Zealand.Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes will adapt family classic The Wind In The Willows for Oscar-winning Schindler’s List producer Gerald R. Molen, with Peter Jackson’s Weta on board.Ray Griggs will direct the Kenneth Grahame adaptation, on which it is understood extensive design and artwork have already…

  • Monty Python film director Terry Jones: full of fun and innocence – and a very naughty boy

    Monty Python film director Terry Jones: full of fun and innocence – and a very naughty boy

    After directing the Python films and creating such characters as the Virgin Mandy and the monstrous Mr Creosote, he went on to make Personal Services and The Wind in the Willows• Terry Jones dies aged 77Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77, was the Python with a sweetly open, guileless face and…