The house from Pixar's Up actually has a real life counterpart, and now that house is getting its very own feature film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox Searchlight is working on a feature film about the real life Up house in Seattle, Washington. Will Gluck (Easy A, Annie) will produce the project, although no director is attached yet.
The Seattle farmhouse made headlines when its owner, Edith Macefield, turned down a $1 million offer from developers, who purchased all the other homes in the area so they could build a mall. As a result, the mall was built around Macefield's home, which is pretty similar to the plot of Up. The woman actually developed a friendship with the project's superintendent, Barry Martin, who would check in on her every day. She left the home to him in her will and passed away in 2008.
The feature film will focus on this unlikely friendship between Macefield and Martin, and it will be loosely based on Martin's book about the situation, Under One Roof: Lessons I Learned from a Tough Old Woman in a Little Old House.
Disney has denied that the house inspired the story of Up, but the studio did embrace the unintentional similarities by tying balloons to the home in 2009 to promote the film. The house once again drew attention last year when it was at risk of being torn down, but it was later saved by a non-profit organization which hopes to move it to Orcas Island. A Kickstarter is currently underway to fund the move, which has so far raised $16,500 of its $205,000 goal.