FernGully: The Last Rainforest, an animation classic, is getting its own live-action movie. The adaptation’s writing and overall direction are led by Marielle Heller, known for her surrealist 2024 body horror film Nightbitch.
The 1992 animation follows Crysta, a fairy from FernGully who’s still a student of magic. Her curiosity about smoke—which she suspected was related to the evil force called Hexxus—leads her to meet a human named Zak. To save him, she shrinks him but is unable to return him to his true form. This leads him into an adventure to FernGully, where fairies live and thrive.
