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oh my god there's a movie based on a penny arcade thing coming out
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/paramount-plots-next-animated-pic-194394
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/10/29/
After tasting success of its first non-DreamWorks Animation-produced
animated film Rango, Paramount is jumping into the medium again with New Kid.
The project is an adaptation of an online comic from Penny Arcade. The
studio has picked up rights and tapped Book of Eli writer Gary
Whitta to pen the script. Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are producing via
their studio-based Disruption Entertainment.
The premise spins the feeling of being a new kid in school into an intergalactic story when the kid happens to be the lone earthling in a school chock full of aliens.
Penny Arcade, created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, is one of the few viable webcomic sites that has grown into its own little fiefdom, with a blog, video games, podcasts and an online TV show.
Part of the impetus for New Kid is that Paramount is coming to the end of its current DWA distribution deal. Insiders say the studio is looking for a well of animated fare to potentiall fill that part of its pipepline if a new DWA pact can't be worked out. While there isn’t likely to be a Pixar-like animated division at Paramount any time soon, the studio knows it needs to be in that lucrative game, with or without Jeffrey Katzenberg. Rango, released in March, grossed more than $240 million worldwide.
Parent just set up at Paramount the DC Comics property The Mighty, one of the few titles that was allowed to escape from parent company Warner Bros., which normally handles any screen adaptations.
Whitta is repped by UTA and Circle of Confusion.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/10/29/
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Hopefully the PA crew will earn BANK off this.
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Did not see this coming.
Well, hopefully the movie will be super-successful and they'll earn some sweet royalties.
If I had it all to do over again, I still would not vote for The New Kid.
But this is pretty swank for Mike and Jerry nonetheless.
I think the New Kid was my least favorite out of all of the things
I am extremely interested.
good on Gabe, Tycho, and everybody at PA.
this was my favorite out of the three
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Fruit Fucker: Trouble in Orange Town would make a good Pixar short.
I would love to see that.
Automata and Lookouts would also make great animated movies, they have such distinctive style.
New Kid is a pretty vague idea based on only that single comic, but that's probably appealing to studios so I imagine it had something to do with why this particular idea was picked up.
I am assuming this means that Automata will be made into an HBO miniseries
I know it will never happen, but a Belruel movie would be pretty awesome as well. But yeah, this idea is a pretty good one for an animated kids movie.
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Great job. Hope they get ILM or something to animate.
Yes please!
and i love them for it