{"id":596059,"date":"2026-08-26T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596059\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:22:09","slug":"john-augusts-wolfs-belly-set-as-sony-movie-alfonso-cuaron-to-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596059\/","title":{"rendered":"John August’s ‘Wolf’s Belly’ Set As Sony Movie; Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n To Produce"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Sony<\/a> Pictures is excited for screenwriter John August<\/a>\u2018s graphic-novel retelling of \u201cLittle Red Riding Hood,\u201d Wolf\u2019s Belly, and beat several studios for the IP including Amazon, we understand.<\/p>\n

\n\tAugust will adapt his work for the big screen, with four-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tAugust became inspired to write Wolf\u2019s Belly as he always wondered what was happening to Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother inside the animal\u2019s gastrointestinal tract. Ultimately in the fable, they are cut out. In Wolf\u2019s Belly, Little Red Riding Hood and Grandmother find themselves in a magical void with other fairytale characters that the wolf has gobbled up, including the Boy who Cried Wolf and a fourth Little Pig. Together, they must find a way to escape. The project is being conceived for all audiences, per sources.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Cuar\u00f3n,\u00a0Gabriela Rodriguez is also producing, with Richard Schwartz executive producing on behalf of Esperanto Filmoj. Schwartz originally brought the project into the company, where it grew out of Esperanto\u2019s existing relationship with August, who had shared the graphic novel exclusively with them.<\/p>\n

\n\tAugust and Cuar\u00f3n discussed whether the project should be animation or live-action, and it was decided the latter is the way to go. One of the themes in Wolf\u2019s Belly is the danger of wanting too much and what happens when we\u2019re swallowed up by our own ambitions. The Macmillan imprint Roaring Brook Press graphic novel also delves into the wolf and how he came to be.<\/p>\n

\n\tWolf\u2019s Belly was illustrated by character animation designer Sim\u00f3n Estrada, who August worked with on a previous project. Estrada is also an art director and visual developer. The graphic novel was published in 2026 and received starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal.<\/p>\n

August has a long-standing relationship with Sony Pictures including screenwriting credits on\u00a0Big Fish, for which he received a BAFTA nomination;\u00a0Charlie\u2019s Angels;\u00a0and\u00a0Charlie\u2019s Angels: Full Throttle. In addition to movies, August has written the Arlo Finch middle-grade trilogy and the bestselling\u00a0Scriptnotes\u00a0book, based on his long-running podcast with Craig Mazin. August\u2019s feature screenwriting credits also include Tim Burton\u2019s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (worldwide box office: $474.9 million) in addition to credits on several other titles with the filmmaker \u2014 i.e., Frankenweenie and Dark Shadows \u2014 as well as the Guy Ritchie-directed Disney live-action take on Aladdin ($1.054B).<\/p>\n

\n\tAugust is represented by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment and HJTH.<\/p>\n

Cuar\u00f3n is best known\u00a0for Roma, Gravity, Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\u00a0and\u00a0Y Tu Mam\u00e1 Tambi\u00e9n. He is repped by WME and Blue Marble Management.<\/p>\n

\n\tJodi Reamer at Writers House repped the book. Connie Hsu at Macmillan Roaring Brook was editor of Wolf\u2019s Belly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is excited for screenwriter John August\u2018s graphic-novel retelling of \u201cLittle Red Riding Hood,\u201d Wolf\u2019s Belly,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[269566,146,85,46,269567,834,269568],"class_list":["post-596059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alfonso-cuaron","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-john-august","tag-sony","tag-wolfs-belly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}