Release Date: 2014-04-11
Release
Distributors: Relativity Media
Status: In Development
Film Genre(s): Comedy
United States
SYNOPSIS
Written by Dean Georgaris, this is based iconic action hero figure first launched by Hasbro in 1976 and re-launched in the 90’s.PREVIEW NOTES
- Variety reports that Universal Pictures has set Steve Oedekerk to write the project. Hasbro's Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir will produce. - 2009-02-12
- Variety reports that Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer has reached out to produce the project. - 2009-06-02
- Universal Pictures announced that it has hired Rob Letterman to direct and Nicholas Stoller to rewrite. - 2010-04-20
- Relativity Media announces that it has partnered with Hasbro to develop and produce this film - Universal Pictures no longer involved. An April 11, 2014 is targeted release date. - 2012-01-30
- Variety reports that Dean Georgaris will draft this project. - 2012-04-23
"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
