New Line will film the fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," snapping up a pitch from Darren Lemke and setting it up with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment.
Lemke's take reimagines as an action-adventure saga the classic story published in 1816 by E.T.A. Hoffmann. Lemke is the orginal writer on New Line's "Jack the Giant Killer," to which director Bryan Singer is attached.
