That ‘Rats of NIMH’ Movie Officially Has a Director
One of those weird children’s literature staples from the ’80s and ’90s was Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien’s book about small animals that seemed like a spiritual sibling of Redwall and Watership Down. It was adapted into an animated movie in 1982, The Secret of NIMH, which was Don Bluth’s (An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Anastasia) directorial debut. MGM has had the book rights since 2015, and now the new movie has a director in visual effects supervisor James Madigan.