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Animated film "Up"

Update : 2015-08-26 11:25:23
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“Annie” director Will Gluck is set to co-produce the story of the famous Seattle house which caused a media sensation due to its similarities to Pixar’s 2009 animated film “Up”. At the centre of the film will be the house’s owner Edith Macefield, who held out against developers and lived there, while a mall was built around it. Fox Searchlight, the high-minded movie arm of Fox, has picked up the untitled project, said The Hollywood Reporter.

Gluck, is on board to produce the drama along with Jodi Hildebrand, his partner at Olive Bridge Entertainment. Gluck is not attached to direct at this stage. The small farmhouse stood in Seattle perfectly fine for about 100 years as the city grew around it, until in 2006 when a big commercial development encroached on it, buying all the homes in the neighbourhood except the one holdout.

The home’s owner stood her ground and turned down a reported offer of USD 1 million from developers, becoming a local hero. Amazingly, Macefield struck up a deep friendship with the superintendent of the five-story construction project, Martin, who would check in on the old lady daily, even as the mall was slowly built around her home. When Macefield died in 2008, she willed the house to Martin, the man supervising the building project that was trying to kick her out.

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