Kensuke`s Kingdom Film
Advertisement Lupus Films previously brought Michael Rosen’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and Raymond Briggs’ Ethel and Ernest to the small screen, and now they are turning Morpurgo’s 1999 award-winning children’s book into a feature film. Speaking at the in London alongside The Tiger Who Came to Tea author Judith Kerr, Morpurgo revealed: “We are going to make a full-length animated film.” The script is by fellow children’s author Frank Cottrell-Boyce. But though the movie has been a long time in the making, so far it exists only as a 55-second trailer. The clip reveals a small boy and his dog who fall overboard during their family’s round-the-world sailing trip. Stranded on an island in the Pacific, they think they are all alone – but the island is actually the territory of Kensuke, an old Japanese soldier.
“I think it will be made in about two years’ time. The people who are making it are called Lupus Films, who are the people who made that wonderful production of Raymond Briggs’ Ethel and Ernest at Christmas. And also the other one, that wonderful Michael Rosen book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. If Michael Rosen can do it, I can do it!” The collaboration between Cottrell-Boyce and Morpurgo dates back to a conversation many years ago, according to Sunday Times children’s books editor Nicolette Jones, who was chairing the panel.
Michael Morpurgo Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke's Kingdom is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by William Low. It was first published in 1999 by Egmont UK.