book in April 2014 while on vacation with his family because his two nephews recommended it. "I'd read it with no idea of making a film, and I read it in the full glow of the enthusiasm of two boys who were the target audience of Eoin Colfer's imagination," Branagh says. "So I felt like it was a really fresh way to be exposed to the story." Serendipitously, Disney called a week later to gauge his interest in the franchise.
Before signing on to direct, Branagh reviewed the previous scripts and found them "trying to make the thing something it wasn't," he says, explaining that he went on to develop a plan to make the movie happen. First, he wanted to "return to the source [material] — that's Eoin Colfer." Second, he brought playwright Connor McPherson on board to write the screenplay because he wanted to "keep it Irish.
"I wanted to serve all of those things, but my instinct — I said it from the very first meeting with all my Disney family — is that this movie should go like the wind," Branagh says. "It should be short. This is a 90-minute movie, as far as I'm concerned. What I read when I first joined were two-and-a-half-hour movies that I thought, 'Wow, this is so much to throw at an audience first time out.' One of the things about thebooks is that they grow on you.
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