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Renowned Northern Ireland filmmaker Sir Kenneth Branagh has signed on to direct a new live-action Gargoyles movie, the Belfast Telegraph is reporting. The upcoming feature film will be based on the animated 1990s television series of the same name.
The live-action movie has been widely anticipated since the original show concluded. A concept was originally created for a feature film adaptation, but was latter scrapped, after the series concluded. Then in 2011, the writing team of David Elliot and Paul Lovett (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) was hired to pen a new script for the movie.
The Gargoyles series, which premiered in 1994, ran for three seasons, with a total of 78 episodes. The show was renamed Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles in its final season.
The television series featured a clan of the titular gargoyles as heroes who were transplanted from the 10th century to the modern day. Back in the middle ages, most of the clan was killed. However, Goliath and a small group of other gargoyles are cursed to be frozen in stone until their castle somehow reaches above the clouds.