Disney s Artemis Fowl Movie: Release Date Plot Trailer Cast Director Rumors

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The Artemis Fowl books are getting a movie.

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is finally making an Artemis Fowl movie based on the beloved children's book series, almost 20 years after its original publish date. The story's got everything from centaurs to criminal masterminds, and Dame Judi Dench is in the cast. Buckle up for a twisted fairy tale.
Release date: When can I see it? Originally slated to release Aug. 9, the movie was later pushed back to May 29, 2020. However, due to the spread of across the globe, the . The movie is slated to land on the subscription streaming service on June 12 in the US, Australia, Canada, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Netherlands and Italy.


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"Due to uncertain times, cocooned fans will join together for the movie's release on Disney Plus," Eoin Colfer tweeted April 3. "Streaming to millions of homes is prob how Arty would have wanted it. Release date TBC, stay tuned."
The plot: What's it all about?
Haven City, capital of the underground fairy world.

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Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius who lives in a mansion in Ireland with his bodyguard. Before the story begins, his crime lord father has gone missing along with the Fowl family's millions, and his mother has become detached from reality as a result.

For some time, Artemis has been tracking down the existence of the underground fairy world, getting his hands on a copy of its Book of the People through an alcoholic sprite in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He translates the gnommish runes and uses the information to kidnap Lower Elements Police (LEP) elite officer and fairy Holly Short, holding her to ransom in his family's manor.
















Fowl Manor in Ireland.

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The hostage situation sees Artemis match wits -- and his bodyguard, Butler, match physical strength -- with a bunch of other characters from the fairy world, including LEPrecon Commander Julius Root, tech genius centaur Foaly and criminal kleptomaniac dwarf Mulch Diggums.

The first of the eight-book Artemis Fowl series, written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, was released almost two decades ago, in 2001 (and boy does that make me feel old).

Kenneth Branagh, the film's director, said it's taken a while because ."

"It's taken quite some time to find the balance between humor and emotion and magic and the contemporary world," Branagh told ET Online in November. "You're talking about the many kinds of fairies, elves, sprits, trolls [and] goblins that live under the Earth and at the same time, you're looking to have a very sort of contemporary feeling modern world that embraces technology."

Branagh said he's also trying to keep the movie to a 90-minute runtime, because he wants the film, like the books, to be "very rapid, very punchy and pacy."
The trailer: What's it going to look like?