Variety reports that Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment is set to collaborate with Australian production company Animal Logic (animation teams behind The Lego Movie series and Happy Feet) for a collection of animated and live-action hybrid movies.
Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) will write the film with Paramount Pictures set to distribute both Treehorn and Rainbow Serpent.
Finally, Muttnik, a live-action/animation hybrid tells the story of a dog sent into space by Russia who returns home “an evolved creature.”
Carlos Stevens will direct from a script by Jonathon Stewart and Eyal Podell, Warner Bros. will distribute.