Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Dr. Seuss

10/7/11 - Illumination Entertainment and Infinitum Nihil are developing a live-action movie about the life of classic children's author and illustrator Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Geisel). Johnny Depp will produce the project with the potential to star as Seuss. Universal Pictures will distribute. Keith Bunin has been hired to write the screenplay, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Depp is producing with Infinitum Nihil partner Christi Dembrowski, Illumination's Christopher Meledandri and David Kennedy.  While producers say that the film is unlikely to take the fantastical CGI-coated style, they are not ruling out animated bells and whistles.  Geisel was born in 1904 and spent much of his childhood in Springfield, Massachusetts before going to college at Dartmouth. Throughout his early years, he drew advertising and comic strips, then political cartoons during World War II. By 1950, Geisel was publishing the books that became worldwide classics. He died of throat cancer in 1991.

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