The movie, which has not yet been green-lighted and will be in the works, will be a "fantastical" story that is "trying to capture the magic of a fairy story, but not being a fairy story with a magical magic, which would get us a bad R-rating, so we're going to be a story of hope, the best of both worlds."

"I've always loved fairy tales," he said. "I think I have some of the same