After being hired to co-write the screenplay, David Lowery is in negotiations to direct “Pete’s Dragon” for Disney, multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.
The original 1977 film featured an animated dragon interacting with a live-action cast including Mickey Rooney, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons and Sean Marshall, who played an orphan fleeing his abusive adoptive parents.
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Lowery and Toby Halbrooks wrote the script, which reinvents the core of the original family film, which is not expected to be a musical this time around.