Steven Spielberg has announced that he's walked away from a new version of Harvey. Spielberg has done all right by attempting a fresh adaptation of Mary Chase's play which was first appeared in 1950 film starring James Stewart.According to Variety is that the real trouble for Spielberg was to find the lead actor whom will stepping the role of Elwood P Drood. First choice was Tom Hanks but he didn't want to be involved despite his long friendship with the director. Then, Spielberg turned to Iron Man's Robert Downey Jr whom also passed out the idea.
"The story is about an affable man Elwood P. Dowd and his presumably imaginary friend Harvey, a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch tall rabbit. When Elwood starts to introduce Harvey, a pooka, to guests at a society party, his society-obsessed sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter Myrtle Mae and their family from future embarrassment."
20th Century Fox will not see the movie works now and their dream to work with him. Spielberg's next plan could still be Lincoln, another adaptation of Lincoln's story aside from Robert Redford who is also developing another Lincoln-related story - The Conspirator.