--- title: New Adaptation of White Fang Movie Coming description: Spike Jonze pal Lance Acord will make his directorial debut on the new film canonical: https://time.com/3582200/disney-white-fang-again/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-12T23:14:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:24:04.783Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Disney's Making a 'White Fang' Movie... Again og:description: Spike Jonze pal Lance Acord will make his directorial debut on the new film og:url: https://time.com/3582200/disney-white-fang-again/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf68156ede802b9be/69876872a988ca36506aab18/white-fang.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ethan Hawke in White Fang in 1991. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Disney's Making a 'White Fang' Movie... Again twitter:description: Spike Jonze pal Lance Acord will make his directorial debut on the new film twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf68156ede802b9be/69876872a988ca36506aab18/white-fang.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Disney's Making a _White Fang_ Movie... Again by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 12, 2014 11:14 PM UTC  Ethan Hawke in White Fang in 1991. Ethan Hawke in White Fang in 1991.Disney by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 12, 2014 11:14 PM UTC **Correction appended, Nov. 12** Disney is revisiting its 1991 film _White Fang,_ which was based on the classic Jack London novel. An updated version of the adventure film will get a screenplay by Academy Award-nominated writer Jose Rivera (for _The Motorcycle Diaries_), the _Hollywood Reporter_ said. And long-time Spike Jonze pal Lance Acord, who did the cinematography on Jonze’s ex-wife Sofia Coppola’s _Lost in Translation_, will make his directorial debut at the movie’s helm. The ’90s adaptation of the story by Jack London followed a young man, played by a fresh newcomer named Ethan Hawke, who befriended a wolf-dog and set off on a number of adventures through Alaska during the Gold Rush. The _Hollywood Reporter_ said there’s no word on whether the new film version will adhere more to the book, which told the story from the wolf-dog’s point of view. \[[THR](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-developing-new-white-fang-748334?utm%5Fsource=Sailthru&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=hollywoodreporter%5Fbreakingnews&utm%5Fcampaign=THR%20Breaking%20News%5Fnow%5F2014-11-12%2012%3A41%3A29%5Fehayden)\] **Correction:** Due to an editorial error, the original version of this story misstated the director for _Lost in Translation_. It was Sofia Coppola. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3582200/disney-white-fang-again/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3582200/disney-white-fang-again/"},"headline":"Disney's Making a White Fang Movie... Again","datePublished":"2014-11-12T23:14:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:24:04.783Z","description":"Spike Jonze pal Lance Acord will make his directorial debut on the new film","url":"https://time.com/3582200/disney-white-fang-again/","keywords":["movies","ethan hawke"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf68156ede802b9be/69876872a988ca36506aab18/white-fang.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf68156ede802b9be/69876872a988ca36506aab18/white-fang.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ethan Hawke in White Fang in 1991.","caption":"Ethan Hawke in White Fang in 1991.","creditText":"Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3582200/disney-white-fang-again/","name":"Disney's Making a White Fang Movie... Again"}}]}] ```