The Hobbit actor's production company is making a new TV adaptation of the Raymond Briggs children's favourite to be shown on Sky One at Christmas
Fungus the Bogeyman, the popular 1977 children's picturebook by The Snowman author Raymond Briggs, is to get new life in a production from Andy Serkis's motion capture company, The Imaginarium Studios.
The book follows a day in the life of Fungus, a Bogeyman who lives in a similar – if considerably damper – version of our world with his son, Mould, and has to frighten "Dry Cleaners", as humans are known.
A previous adaptation by the BBC aired in 2004, starring Martin Clunes and written by Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
The new version will run over four episodes on Sky One this Christmas. It will follow Fungus and Mould's exploring the Bogey world, and encounters with Dry Cleaners in the world above.
The series will be written by Threesome's Tom MacRae, and directed by Downton Abbey's Catherine Morshead.
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