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EXCLUSIVE: Amos Vernon and Nunzio Randazzo, nan screenwriting duo down Netflix’s caller deed rom-com People We Meet connected Vacation, person been enlisted to pen nan caller Care Bears movie for Warner Bros.
This follows Josh Greenbaum’s attachment arsenic director, which we scooped past June. It besides comes pursuing nan duo’s waste of buzzy live-action drama spec Blow Up nan Chat to Warner Bros. successful a bidding war, pinch Jeff Schaffer attached to direct.
Plot specifications for nan Care Bears movie are being kept nether wraps. Good Fear’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner are producing alongside GoldDay’s Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, pinch rightsholder Cloudco’s Sean Gorman and Daniel Barnes exec producing. Sheila Walcott is overseeing nan task for Warner Bros.
Care Bears has a unsocial root story, arsenic a franchise cultivated astir greeting paper characters popularized successful nan 1980s by American Greetings (now Cloudco Entertainment). Each carnivore had a chopped colour and “belly badge” that symbolized their characteristic and work — pinch names for illustration Tenderheart Bear, Cheer Bear, and Grumpy Bear — nan thought being to personify different emotions and affirmative traits to thief children definitive their feelings and foster empathy.
The fame of nan cards led to nan creation of a artifact line, which past spurred animated TV specials and, eventually, a TV series. The original Care Bears animation aired from 1985 to 1988 and was followed by 3 theatrical films spanning nan mid-to-late 1980s. Over nan decades, nan franchise has undergone respective revivals. New iterations of nan Care Bears TV bid were released successful nan 2000s, 2010s, and astir precocious pinch Care Bears: Unlock nan Magic, which launched successful 2019.
The franchise remains a world commercialized powerhouse, pinch complete $10 cardinal successful life retail.
Vernon & Randazzo shared penning in installments pinch Yulin Kuang connected People We Meet connected Vacation, Netflix’s adjustment of nan #1 New York Times bestselling caller by Emily Henry from 3000 Pictures and Temple Hill Entertainment. Directed by Brett Haley and starring Emily Bader and Tom Blyth, nan movie debuted astatine #1 connected Netflix’s Top 10 backmost successful January and remained connected nan database for aggregate weeks aft release, accruing 40M+ views since then.
Vernon & Randazzo person besides penned an adjustment of nan Sega crippled Toejam & Earl for Amazon. They are represented by CAA and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
