The Peanuts are returning to the big screen in time for Thanksgiving 2015. Distributed by 20th Century Fox with Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age) animating and direction from Steve Martino (Horton Hears a Who) off of a script co-written by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the gang are coming out in full force for their 55th Anniversary in 2015. The production team behind the new animated film is well and good, but news has just come out that Paul Feig will be producing and overseeing the project.
Feig, who created Freaks and Geeks and directed Bridesmaids, likened the Peanuts comic strip to his personal Star Wars, which bodes well for Charlie Brown and Snoopy fans worried about mistreatment of the film. While he probably won’t have much creative input on the film, there’s still a glimmer of wishful thinking on my part that some of Feig’s patented lightly melodrama will pepper itself on the film. We all knew that Sam Weir was basically Charlie Brown, but now the connection becomes even closer.
[via Collider]