The kid gloves are coming off for Christopher Robin as this beloved children’s book character gets his first R-rated adaptation in an upcoming comedy series by Charlie Kesslering and Conrad Vernon for Boat Rocker and Bay Mills Studios. The series is set to take Christopher Robin from a young boy in the pages of classic “Winnie the Pooh” stories to an embittered twenty-something in the modern world, bringing the character into yet-uncharted territory.
Christopher Robin, as a character, is over fifty years old, having first appeared in Disney’s “Winnie Pooh and the Honey Tree” (1966). Based on the real-life son of “Winnie the Pooh,” author A. A. Milne, Christopher Robin has, historically, appeared as a young English schoolboy who spends his free time playing with his favorite stuffed animal, Winnie the Pooh. His other toys include Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga, and Roo, who all come to life through the power of Christopher Robin’s imagination.
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In the newest “Winnie the Pooh” hybrid adaptation, however, all of that is thrown out the window in favor of an adult Christopher Robin who, according to Deadline, is “a disillusioned New Yorker navigating his quarter-life crisis with the help of the weird talking animals who live beyond a drug-induced portal outside his derelict apartment complex, the Hundred Acres.”
While re-imagining Christopher Robin as an adult isn’t exactly a new idea, given that Ewan McGregor portrayed him as a disillusioned, workaholic middle-aged family man in Christopher Robin (2018), the new comedy series created by “Turned On” producer Charlie Kesslering and “Sausage Party” producer Conrad Vernon promises to put a very new twist on the decades-old character. This won’t be the first time “Winnie the Pooh” has gotten dark, either: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, released in February 2023, re-imaged Winnie the Pooh and Piglet as bloodthirsty and feral as they rain terror upon Christopher Robin and a group of women staying at a remote, isolated house.
The new “Christopher Robin” R-rated comedy series will be produced by Nick Nantell for Boat Rocker, and Shamier Anderson and Stephan James for Bay Mills Studios, along with Kesslering and Vernon. Holly Hubsher will oversee the series for Bay Mills Studios.