Michael Vukadinovich

The Three Misfortunes of Gepetto scribe Michael Vukadinovich has been tapped to write a fresh take on the beloved children’s classic The Phantom Tollbooth for Tristar Pictures. The book, first published in 1961, was written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer.

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The “Up in the Air” producer boards the animated adaptation penned by Michael Vukadinovich.

Logline: Tells the story of a young girl whose nutcracker doll comes to life and leads her on an adventure in a magical land.

Logline: Twin brothers with opposite personalities are separated at a young age and go on to live drastically different lives, eventually being reunited in an effort to save the company ‘Rocket Cola’ despite their love of the same woman.

Logline: Twin brothers with opposite personalities are separated at a young age and go on to live drastically different lives, eventually being reunited in an effort to save the company ‘Rocket Cola’ despite their love of the same woman.

Logline: A boy who believes everything is a waste of time is swept into an alternate universe by a mysterious tollbooth and embarks on a strange journey to the Kingdom of Wisdom.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: A man’s life is thrown into disarray when an overbearing, filthy-mouthed friend pops into town and hits the road with the man and his girlfriend on an adventurous trip.

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Logline: Pitched as “Big Fish” meets “Forrest Gump,” story of Geppetto, a modest woodcarver whose who endures life’s hardships, war and misfortunes to be with his one true love, Julia Moon.

Logline: Set in America during World War II, the story follows Pinnochio’s father as a young man whose attempts at a happy life with his true love are consistently thwarted by his jealous nemesis, Edmund Vile.