On Monday, Paramount quietly released the first trailer for its film adaptation of the beloved children’s book, The Little Prince. It is one of the most-read and most-translated books in the French language, as well as one of the best-selling books of all time. It’s also, once again, a movie and the first trailer, which is entirely in French, promises a delightful animated take on the book’s timeless adventure.
Published in 1943 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery as Le Petit Prince, it has been translated into more than 200 languages and has sold over 140 million times worldwide in over 100 different languages.
Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne will be behind this one too. The movie also employed a similar style of animation, vivid with bright colours, quirky textures, and an astonishingly tactile depth—a fitting aesthetic for The Little Prince’s surreal, dreamlike narrative.
While there’s no word yet on when the movie will hit theatres in the US, it will release on 7 October 2015 in France. The American version will be in English and feature the voices of Jeff Bridges, James Franco, Rachel McAdams and more.