‘Challenger Deep’ Adaptation Coming To Disney+ From ‘Toy Story 4’ Co-Writer
By Ben Pearson/July 27, 2019 11:00 am EST
Shusterman based the book on his son Brendan’s schizoaffective disorder and the book features Brendan’s illustrations throughout, so this is a deeply personal story for him. An old Hollywood Reporter article says he was once set to write the movie version himself for 20th Century Fox, but now the project will be adapted for Disney+ by Will McCormack, an actor/writer who co-wrote the solid 2012 indie drama Celeste & Jesse Forever with Rashida Jones and went on to co-write Toy Story 4 with her as well. (The writing duo left Toy Story 4 early in that film’s development, saying Pixar had a culture in which women and people of color’s voices were not given creative equality, but they both did enough work on the script to end up receiving credit in the final version.)
