Jason Bateman

And it's based on an amazing, amazing novella called Grief is the Thing with Feathers.

Oh, wow.

Which is a misquote of the famous Emily Dickinson line, Love is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter, who is just a titan of a heroic human being in actual physical stature and in talent.

He's a wonderfully kind, brilliant mind.

And

He's created a space where male grief is examined in the most unimaginably crazy and imaginative way.

It's about dealing with it as an acceptance, as something you live with.

And it comes alive.

It comes alive in the form of the dad's work, which from the book, maybe the film, but certainly the book more or less is hinted at as being

a memory of the boys of what that time was like.

You kind of learn that as the story unfolds.

But it's a crow.

It's a crow that comes fully to life as this horrific entity that's both Mary Poppins to the children, an amanuensis, a hero, an absolute nightmare, a ferocious noise in the head, a tormentor, and an ally against despair.

And it's a huge homage to...

The literature was born out of the poetry of Ted Hughes.

In our version, he was an academic in the book.

In our version, he's an illustrator.

And his illustration comes to life, basically, and lives, torments, and is accepted by this family grieving the loss of their mother and wife.

Wow, wow, wow.

I can't wait to check it out.