Fungus The Bogeyman To Return With Help From Andy Serkis

Beloved Raymond Briggs character Fungus The Bogeyman is coming back to television with help from Andy Serkis’ state of the art VFX company The Imaginarium Studios.

Sky 1 has commissioned a live-action four-part series based on the hit 1977 Briggs book, with Serkis’ performance capture studio on board to bring Fungus to life.

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The show, which will debut at Christmas, is being written by ‘Threesome’ creator and occasional ‘Doctor Who’ screenwriter Tom MacRae and will be directed by ‘Downton Abbey’s Catherine Morshead.

The book is notable for having only the faintest hint of a storyline, preferring to detail the mundane existence of an average Bogeyman whose sole job is scaring humans. The book was adapted into a three-part series starring Martin Clunes by the BBC back in 2004.

Serkis set up The Imaginarium Studios in 2011, providing performance capture facilities for films such as ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’.

The studios biggest project though is likely to be ‘The Jungle Book: Origins’, a live-action CGI hybrid directed by Serkis, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Christian Bale, which is set for release in 2017.

Check out Serkis in human form in the latest trailer for ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ below.

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