The writing team of Lowell Gantz and Babaloo Mandel have been given the job of turning the 17-page Jim Piddock treatment of “The Tooth Fairy” into a full-scripted family-fable comedy.
Gantz and Mandel have worked together in the past and written such family comic successes as “Splash,” the Ron Howard film starring Tom Hanks, “Parenthood” with Steve Martin, “Robots” starring the voice of Robin Williams and “Fever Pitch” with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon.
Other than what might be construed from the title and the announcement by 20th Century Fox that it will be a family oriented fantasy and comedy, not much else is known about the plot at this point and the studio plans on keeping a tight lid on it, at least until the completion of Gantz and Babaloo’s first draft.
Jason Blum is set to produce for Fox and Piddock will fill the role of executive producer.
I remember reading in Starlog (I think) _way_ back in 84 or so about a story idea called “The Tooth Fairy”. It was supposed to be about an adult man who finds out that his recently deceased mother was the tooth fairy and as the only heir, he has to assume the job.
When I read it, the idea was for the Govenator to play the role (this was in the Twins timeframe). Seeing Arnie in that kind of role (at least in the 80’s) would have been great!