Everyone loves a good fairy tale, especially one involving beanstalk-climbing tykes, steepling giants, gold-laying geese, and improbable cash/magic bean exchanges. D.J. Caruso, it seems, is no exception having picked up his quill to sign on the dotted line for Jack The Giant Killer.
With a script by Live Free Or Die Hard writer Mark Bomback, Jack The Giant Killer will tell the tale of a young farmer’s quest to rescue a kidnapped princess in a kingdom of giants. By all accounts, it will draw partly on the **Jack And The Beanstalk **story we know and love, and partly on a less-well known fable in which Cornish lad Jack slays his way around the giants’ kingdom.
Putting the brain-bending mess that was Eagle Eye behind him, Caruso has a big year or two ahead of him with post-apocalyptic comic-book adaptation Y: The Last Man also in development.
Recreating the fairy tale milieu is no easy job, but **Empire **is confident Caruso can pull off the tongue-in-cheek, swordy swashbuckle the project promises. But can he deliver another Princess Bride?