Steven Spielberg has announced his next directing project, a film about a giant invisible rabbit.  The good news is it won’t be hard to top his last movie, because his last movie was Indiana Jones.

The filmmaker will direct as his next film a contemporary adaptation of Mary Chase’s play “Harvey,” about a man and his friendship with an invisible six-foot tall rabbit.
“Harvey” was first adapted for the screen in 1950 with James Stewart in the starring role as Elwood P. Dowd. Novelist Jonathan Tropper has written the adaptation for the new version. Pre-production is to begin immediately, with filming set to start after the first of the year as a joint venture between DreamWorks and Fox.
DreamWorks partner Stacey Snider added, “This is a story relevant for all times, perhaps more so than ever before. We are so pleased to be able, with Fox, to be bringing this to today’s audiences.” [via THR]

You think they even reword those statements for different press releases?  I bet her secretary just has a fill-in-the-blank mad lib on her desk for these.  “Ms. Snider is pleased to bring a POIGNANT narrative like DEATH CLIT 6000 to today’s YOUTH and SKATEBOARD RAMPS.”   Anyway, Harvey is a bit of a throwback, to the days when rabbits just hung out with you and wore bow ties and went to the theater.  Nowadays, invisible anthropomorphic animals spend most of their time telling you to do drugs and kill the president.  It’s like, leave me alone, llama, can’t you see I’m trying to snort this PCP?

(*air guitar*)