Alcon acquired the rights from the creator of the comic series and brand, Jim Davis, who will also serve as an Executive Producer.
Variety reports that Alcon Entertainment’s upcoming animated film version of Garfield has found its director in Chicken Little‘s Mark Dindal, who will helm the project from a script written by Paul Kaplan and Mark Torgove.
John Cohen, producer of the worldwide hit films Despicable Me and the recently-released The Angry Birds Movie, and Steven P. Wegner brought the project to Alcon.