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.