Disney is sticking to their live action path with a new project about gargoyles.

Zoe Green is wrapping up negotiations with the major filmmaker to develop a story revolving around the stone carvings with Lauren Shuler Donner and Jack Leslie via the Donners’ Co producing the project.  The project hopes to center around the mythology of the carvings, which first surfaced in medieval times as water spouts but soon turned into symbols to ward off or attract evil.  While the mythology will be the center, it’s known the project will center around modern times.

Green is already a working name in the fantasy field.  She has created the story Tigeress which is being produced by Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment for Disney and sold a fantasy project titled Book of Shadows for Castle Rock to be directed by Rob Reiner.

 She’s also in the process of adapting the Neal Stephenson novel The Diamond Age into a mini-series for SyFy.

It’s believed this story idea came from the gargoyles in the recently released Sorcerer’s Apprentice.  My big question is why this new project has the green light, but the well loved cartoon Gargoyles from when I was a kid never got the opportunity to have its big screen debut?  If you’re going to make a movie about gargoyles, why not use the characters already known?

Either way, I’d like to see how this develops.