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"Triangle director Chris Smith has described his movie adaptation of the CHERUB novels as &amp;quot;Shane Meadows meets Spy Kids&amp;quot;. Speaking to Digital Spy, the Brit filmmaker admitted that he and co-writer Ronan Bennett want to replicate the &amp;quot;energy&amp;quot; of the Somers Town director in an espionage storyline. Smith said: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a big franchise already but we&amp;#039;re trying to bring a Shane Meadowsy thing to it. What would Shane Meadows&amp;#039;s Spy Kids be like? That&amp;#039;s the plan. Shane&amp;#039;s so good with kids, it&amp;#039;s trying to get that energy on the screen but still make it feel a bit Bourne Identity. It&amp;#039;s going to be a weird mix.&amp;quot; Discussing the storyline for his movie version of Robert Muchamore&amp;#039;s novel, he commented: &amp;quot;The first book&amp;#039;s called The Recruit and that&amp;#039;s what we based it on. In the first book you get him being an orphan and becoming a spy, going through training, then it stops and it&amp;#039;s a 150-page mission. There&amp;#039;s enough for two movies in the first two-thirds of the book. We&amp;#039;ve dropped the mission and put our own thing in.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;Kids like naughty, twisted humour and so this is right on the edge.&amp;quot; Muchamore has penned 11 CHERUB books - which centre on a government division that hires orphans to carry out spy missions - with new instalment Shadow Wave due at the end of this year. Smith&amp;#039;s nautical horror Triangle will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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