Zach Braff comes across as the most likeable person currently living. That’s not tough when your competition is Alec Baldwin or Russell Crowe, but I still genuinely root for him to do well. I was discouraged that his new movie The Ex is only ranking slightly higher than those videos where the terrorists cut off the heads of their captives in things people want to see. But Braff is undaunted and in an interview posted on VH1.com, he talks about an upcoming project, Andrew Henry’s Meadow.

The movie will feature a script written by Zach and his brother Adam Braff. It is based on the children’s book of the same name written by Doris Burn in 1965. Cory Edwards, who co-directed the computer animated Hoodwinked!, which I thought was ok but some people considered the work of the Antichrist, is slated to direct, according to Braff. Barry Sonnenfeld was previously linked as the director, but Braff’s information is probably more accurate.

Braff says the book was one of his favorites growing-up. He says the movie will be “a big-kid's adventure movie… as if Terry Gilliam had directed The Goonies.” The book tells the story of an inventive boy who builds a house in a meadow near where he lives. The other neighborhood kids ask for their own houses and each gets one that supports their own passions. It sounds like a great story for a movie and here is hoping that Braff and company get it right.