The Red Balloon - Adaptations

Adaptations

It was adapted for the stage by Anthony Clark, and was performed at the Royal National Theatre in 1996. The Red Balloon has inspired Flight of the Red Balloon, a 2008 French feature film, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien and starring Juliette Binoche. It also seems to be the inspiration for Bob Godfrey and Zlatko Grgic's animated short, Dream Doll. and the central scene of Pixar's "Up" Don Hertzfeld’s animated short Billy’s Balloon bears a strong resemblance to the film, namely in its being about a sentient red balloon and an intrigued child, and both end with a gathering of other sentient balloons, though Billy's Balloon is much darker.