Fox 2000 Bringing "Mr. Ed" to the Big Screen
10/4/2011
by Pamela McClintock


Elizabeth Gabler’s Fox 2000 has picked up the film rights to the classic talking horse "Mr. Ed" for David Friendly's Friendly Films and Jim Mahoney to produce.

No writer or director is yet attached to the live-action family film, which Fox 2000's Carla Hackan will shepherd.



"Mr. Ed", a television sitcom from Filmways, aired on CBS from Oct. 1, 1961 to Feb. 6, 1966. As in the original show, Fox 2000 will use a real horse. The studio will use CGI to animate the horse's mouth.

Friendly, who has produced a number of movies for Fox, including Little Miss Sunshine for Fox Searchlight, brought the project to Fox 2000. Friendly and Mahoney, a longtime manager and television producer, have spent several years securing the rights to "Mr. Ed" from two different estates.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mr-ed-fox-2000-243641

If they want this movie to be successful they better get the casting right. George Burns, whose McCadden Productions shingle originally produced the TV series, said he hired Alan Young for the part of Wilbur Post because he "just seemed like the sort of guy a horse would talk to". And Burns was absolutely right. Alan Young was exactly the right man for the part. In order for this movie to be successful they need to make the same kind of astute casting choice that George Burns made so many years ago!

Dear god, why???

They also better get the right voice for Ed too or it won't work.

they are not going to get "Mr Ed 2000" right - they are going to get Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, or Steve Carell to play Wilbur and probably Will Ferrell as Mr Ed

And remember,not too many years ago,I think it was in the late 1990
s-early 2000's,that the FOX network did a remake of Mister Ed,and featured Sherman Hemsley as the voice of Mister Ed.Needless to say,it was a flop.So why is FOX 2000 doing it again?Does anyone remember the FOX network remeke?

They want to use the cheap and easy way to move the mouth on the horse.That's how the movie will look,cheap and easy.Take the computer out of movies and they will look better.

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It could still happen. Maybe it'll be good.

they are not going to get "Mr Ed 2000" right - they are going to get Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, or Steve Carell to play Wilbur and probably Will Ferrell as Mr Ed
Or Sterling Knight.