The answer to "Where's Waldo?" is Universal.
The studio has picked up the movie rights to the popular children's books series from Classic Media with the aim of making a live-action family film to be produced by Chris Meledandri's Illumination Entertainment.
Classic Media's Eric Ellenbogen will executive produce.
Created by illustrator Martin Handford, the books featured Waldo, dressed in a red-and-white shirt, wearing glasses and carrying a walking stick, as he popped up in crowded full-page scenes.
The books began life in the U.K. in the late 1980s, where he is called Wally, before becoming a worldwide sensation. The books became more thematically complex, with Waldo traveling in time or landing in supernatural settings, and a nemesis was introduced, an anti-Waldo named Odlaw.
The book series was previously set up at Paramount and Nickelodeon, where John Schultz was attached to direct a script that had been worked on...
The studio has picked up the movie rights to the popular children's books series from Classic Media with the aim of making a live-action family film to be produced by Chris Meledandri's Illumination Entertainment.
Classic Media's Eric Ellenbogen will executive produce.
Created by illustrator Martin Handford, the books featured Waldo, dressed in a red-and-white shirt, wearing glasses and carrying a walking stick, as he popped up in crowded full-page scenes.
The books began life in the U.K. in the late 1980s, where he is called Wally, before becoming a worldwide sensation. The books became more thematically complex, with Waldo traveling in time or landing in supernatural settings, and a nemesis was introduced, an anti-Waldo named Odlaw.
The book series was previously set up at Paramount and Nickelodeon, where John Schultz was attached to direct a script that had been worked on...
- 6/1/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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