Deadline has announced Disney+ is set to adapt Flora & Ulysses to its streaming service with Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother) and Ben Schwartz (Sonic The Hedgehog) starring in lead roles. Lena Khan (The Tiger Hunter) will direct from a script by Brad Copeland (Life in Pieces).
The film is based upon Kate DiCamillo’s 2013 novel Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures with illustrations from K.G. Campbell and “follows the imaginative, creative and cynical ten-year-old Flora, who could hardly predict that the little squirrel she saved from a tragic accident would be born anew and transformed into a superhero with the powers of strength, misspelled poetry… and an uncanny knack for helping her and the lovable but broken people in her life become a family again.”
Hannigan will portray Phyliss, Flora’s mother and a romance writer who becomes increasingly concerned with Flora and her newfound friendship with a squirrel while Schwartz will portray Flora’s father.
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures sold over 1 million copies and has been published worldwide in over 20 languages. In 2014, the novel won the Newbery Medal for excellence in children’s literature.
Originally published June 14, 2019. Updated June 13, 2019.
