Biographie de l'auteur
Rob Sprackling is an experienced screenwriter and an award winning writer/director. Along with his writing partner John Smith, he wrote the original screenplay for the animated Disney feature film Gnomeo & Juliet. It was the number one movie at the box office in the UK and US , taking nearly $200 million worldwide. The film was short-listed for an animation Oscar and a BAFTA and Rob was nominated for an Annie (animation s highest honour) for best screenplay. Rob also wrote the original screenplay for the hit British comedy movie Mike Bassett: England Manager and the TV series spin off, Mike Bassett: Manager. He was lead writer on the BAFTA nominated children s TV series Muddle Earth, and co-wrote the forthcoming animated movie Why I Did (Not) Eat My Father, for the producers of the Oscar winning, Belleville Rendezvous. He is currently writing a new feature film for Aardman Animation called Village Idiot and the movie sequel to the Mike Bassett franchise Mike Bassett: Interim Manager. Born Again Ben is Rob's first novel. He has sold the film rights to Hollywood producer Peter Safran and Andrew Adamson (writer/ director of Shrek and Shrek 2) who are currently developing Born Again Ben as an animated movie. Rob is married with two children and lives in West London.
Présentation de l'éditeur
Bully boy Ben is cruel to animals and humans alike - until one day, he gets run over by a 94 bus and is reincarnated as a bug. Now the boot is on the other foot, and that foot wants to squash Ben flat! Ben learns that if he wants to work his way back up the food chain he better start by being nice! Born Again Ben is a dark, comedic morality tale for our times.
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