From Animated Movies website:
The first solo effort of director Gary Trousdale was first mentioned back in October 2001, when screenwriters Rob Sprackling and John Smith (Chicken Run), revealed that they had "a project with Disney which is based on garden gnomes. Its a little story that we concocted using the famous English garden gnome as our lovable character, and thats through Rocket Pictures which is Elton Johns company. They have a deal with Disney." A few months later, in February 2002, Dark Horizons confirmed that Elton John's Rocket Pictures was developing a project--then entitled Gnome Story--for Disney. The movie was described as "a CGI/traditional animation reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story set in a world inhabited by Gnomes. It has the whole shebang like the two fighting families, star crossed lovers etc. Both companies are very excited about this and there is great buzz around the treatment." It is relatively safe to assume that Sir Elton might pen a few songs for his own movie!
The first solo effort of director Gary Trousdale was first mentioned back in October 2001, when screenwriters Rob Sprackling and John Smith (Chicken Run), revealed that they had "a project with Disney which is based on garden gnomes. Its a little story that we concocted using the famous English garden gnome as our lovable character, and thats through Rocket Pictures which is Elton Johns company. They have a deal with Disney." A few months later, in February 2002, Dark Horizons confirmed that Elton John's Rocket Pictures was developing a project--then entitled Gnome Story--for Disney. The movie was described as "a CGI/traditional animation reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story set in a world inhabited by Gnomes. It has the whole shebang like the two fighting families, star crossed lovers etc. Both companies are very excited about this and there is great buzz around the treatment." It is relatively safe to assume that Sir Elton might pen a few songs for his own movie!
