Harold and the Purple Crayon Movie Gets Shazam Star Zachary Levi

A live-action film based mostly on the traditional kids's e book Harold and the Purple Crayon is transferring ahead with Shazam! star Zachary Levi in a lead position. From Sony Footage, the difference is written by David Guion and Michael Handelman (Night time of the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Dinner for Schmucks). John Davis (Dolemite Is My Identify, Disney's Jungle Cruise) is producing via David Leisure. A director hasn't but been named.

Harold and the Purple Crayon was first revealed in 1955. Written by Crockett Johnson, the e book tells the story of a four-year-old boy who creates a complete world by drawing it with a particular purple crayon, culminating with him drawing his personal home and mattress so he can fall asleep. It is such a easy premise, however the story was an enormous hit, bringing about six sequels within the following years and concluding with Harold's ABC in 1963.

In 2002, Adelaide Productions developed a 13-episode animated collection for HBO based mostly on the unique e book. Narrated by Sharon Stone and that includes Connor Matheus because the voice of Harold, the collection received the Daytime Emmy Award for Principal Title Design. Every episode adopted Harold utilizing the purple crayon to discover new worlds whereas studying useful life classes alongside the way in which.

There have been makes an attempt to develop an enormous display screen reimagining of Harold and the Purple Crayon for greater than a decade. It was reported in 2010 that Warner Bros. and Columbia Footage had been teaming up for a Harold film with Josh Klausner writing and James Lassiter and Will Smith producing. It was later reported in 2016 that Dallas Clayton was going to put in writing the screenplay for a CGI-animated film model of the story. At one level, Spike Jonze was attempting to make a Harold film as properly, however his imaginative and prescient by no means made it to fruition both.

No particulars about this new path for the Harold and the Purple Crayon film have been revealed past that it is going to be a "live-action adaptation." It is also unclear if Levi is supposed to play Harold, maybe as an older model of the character, or another person concerned within the story. It is also potential he may function the narrator in the way in which Sharon Stone had for the animated HBO collection. In any case, that is all hypothesis at this level till extra info is divulged concerning the venture.

Zachary Levi could be finest identified for enjoying the titular superhero within the DCEU film Shazam!, which was launched in 2019. A field workplace success, the film already has a sequel within the works with Levi set to reprise the position. Referred to as Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel is ready to be launched on June 2, 2023. Moreover, Levi can be identified for starring within the TV collection Chuck and has appeared within the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Fandral in Thor: The Darkish World and Thor: Ragnarok.

There is no phrase but on when Harold and the Purple Crayon may start manufacturing, however given how lengthy the thought's already been languishing in improvement hell, I would not get too excited concerning the film adaptation simply but. This information involves us from The Hollywood Reporter.

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