The trades are reporting today that Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger will produce an animated feature titled Ruby Tuesday under his Jagged Films banner. Based on the classic Stones song of the same name, the film will be written and directed by brothers Paul and Gaetan Brizzi, who helmed the French toon feature Asterix vs. Caesar and the “Firebird Suite” segment of Fantasia 2000.
Described as “a Faustian tale of a single mother searching for happiness in New York,” the film will obviously be geared to a more adult audience. The Brizzi’s reportedly took the concept to Jagger’s people, who got Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp to co-produce and finance the film. A director and producer whose credits include the action favorites La Femme Nikita, The Professional and The Transporter, Besson is currently completing an animated feature of his own. Based on Besson’s own series of children’s books, the CG-animated Arthur and the Minimoys will be released in the U.S. by The Weinstein Co. around Christmas.
Production on Ruby Tuesday is slated to commence later this year and will utilize a number of Rolling Stones tunes. It’s not yet known which classic cuts will make it into the soundtrack.
The Brizzi brothers were originally attached to direct Sony Animation’s adaptation of Judi and Ron Barrett’s children’s book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. That film will instead be helmed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, creators of MTV’s Clone High series. The CG pic will fall in line after the soon-to-be-released Open Season, the 2007 summer offering Surf’s Up! and the recently announced Hotel Transylvania.
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