Star Wars director George Lucas is developing a computer-animated musical featuring fairies. The project is in pre-production at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch production facility in Marin County, California. David Berenbaum of The Spiderwick Chronicles crafted the script, with Kevin Munroe of TMNT directing. Little else is known about the top-secret upcoming film.

"It's not even known if Lucas came up with the story, as he typically does for his productions," Christopher Campbell at MTV reports, "Of course, he has some experience with the little winged creatures. He wrote and produced Willow, in which there's a scene featuring a bunch of small glowing fairies and one large fairy queen."

"There does appear to be a growing trend in Hollywood involving fairies," Campbell notes, "Miley Cyrus is starring in one for Disney called Wings while Universal is adapting Wicked Lovely, which sounds like "Twilight" but with fairies instead of vampires. Lucas' film will probably be less teen girl-targeted, but who knows? Given that it'll be animated, I keep picturing the ongoing direct-to-video Tinker Bell franchise."

A Lucasfilm spokesperson says it is "too early to comment on the details of the project".

Via Hollywood Reporter.