Miramax Films has hired Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi to adapt George Selden's "The Cricket in Times Square," the classic kids yarn about a menagerie of New York animals, for the bigscreen, reports Variety.
First published in 1960, book centers on Chester, a cricket from Connecticut who rides into Gotham in a picnic basket and becomes an overnight musical star. He befriends Harry, a good-natured alley cat, and Tucker, a fast-talking mouse, and together they set out to save a local newsstand from bankruptcy.