Patrick McHale
The Redwall Wiki was recently fortunate enough to have a brief exchange with Patrick McHale, the screenwriter of the upcoming Netflix Redwall movie project.
"The Redwall Wiki has been a great resource for quickly looking things up when I can't remember something-- so thank you!" McHale exclusively told us.
He also confirmed he is "currently writing the screenplay," and mentioned that he was a Redwall series reader as a youth.
"I wasn't much of a reader as a kid, but the Redwall books were one of the few things I actually sought out and read in middle school outside of my school requirements (along with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, The Hobbit, Winnie the Pooh, and a couple others)," McHale said.
Redwall fans are well aware of certain narrative elements that only appear in the first Redwall saga novel as Brian Jacques didn't originally intend for it to be published, e.g. a beaver species character (who was notably excised from the story in the Nelvana Redwall TV Series adaptation, as well as the 2007 graphic novel adaptation of Redwall).
We inquired about how select instances like these would be handled in the Redwall movie screenplay.
"I'm doing my best to stay true to what I loved about the book, and hopefully keep it in-sync with the rest of the series as well," McHale said.
We continue to greatly anticipate the Redwall Netflix film adaptation, and its accompanying Martin the Warrior event TV series, and certainly hope to hear more from McHale in the future.
Thanks, Patrick!
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