Artemis Fowl director Kenneth Branagh on putting his own stamp on the troubled production and the challenge of faithfully capturing the Irishness of the novel on the big screenIt has taken almost two decades, but Artemis Fowl is finally winging its way to a small screen near you. Two years later, Walt Disney Studios partnered with producer Harvey Weinstein to resurrect Artemis Fowl: The Movie. Kenneth Branagh was drafted in to direct the film for Disney, with Irish playwright Conor McPherson attached as screenwriter. We had a marine unit, an aerial unit, a car unit, a skateboard unit and an acting unit. “When I was starting to work on Artemis Fowl, Judi and I had just worked on The Winter’s Tale.

Source: The Irish Times June 07, 2020 03:56 UTC