The Berenstain Bears Hit the Big Screen

It seems there is NO book out there that is safe from going to the big screen. After more than 45 years, the well-known book franchise, The Berenstain Bears, is headed to the big screen.

There is currently no writer on board, but it will be directed by Shawn Levy, who also directed the "Night at the Museum" movies.

Here are some links for more info:

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/the-beren...big-screen-8439
http://geektyrant.com/2009/11/night-at-the...actioncg-movie/

To be honest, with how big they are, I'm surprised it took them this long to hit the big screen. I grew up reading the books and watching the TV Series that came on at the time. I even secretly read the more recent books and found that the authors have done quite well with the difficult subjects they had to tackle when introducing them to kids. You could say that I'm a fan of the books to this day.

Still, it's finally happened. I wish Levy the best of luck. Getting this one right won't be easy.

This post has been edited by pokeplayer984 on Nov 6 2009, 01:43 AM

Why are they doing this? People can only go so far with bringing children's story books to movies. Although after Where The Wild Things Are I wouldn't be surprised if something like Clifford came to theaters.

This sounds an awful like the movie made off of the Country Bears from Disney World. That movie also had bears existing with humans, except they were actors in costumes. Making animated characters for this movie will be interesting.

It did : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398872/

I used to watch a couple of episodes of the second series, but that was over 13 years ago. I did a bit of research, and I'm amazed to find, as you said, that there were two more TV series, and that one of them is still going on right now. I also didn't know how OLD the book series was, nor did I know how many of them were made. And now they're making a movie. Dang.

Well that movie is at least a cartoon. What I meant was if there was a live action Clifford movie. That would be very unusual in my opinion.

I can't wait for this either!
by the way, there WAS a Clifford movie...

If you read my last post then you'll know that I meant a live action movie.

Berenstain Bears might have enough storylines to pull from to make a movie work. BB is so anthro that it wouldn't be hard to put them in almost any situation.

It also depends on how skilled the writer is at writing and if the director, higher ups are going to try to focus on appealing to all age groups or just young kids only.