![]() ![]() Walden’s next release will be the J ourney to the Center of the Earth sequel Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. The figure has shown up with the likes of Clint Eastwood, Jon Stewart and President Obama. Students who’ve read Flat Stanley make connections with one another, bringing their own Flat Stanley cutouts around the world. The series has an underground following because of the creation of The Flat Stanley Project, hatched in 1995 in middle schools around the US, which broadened around the world. Walden Media CEO Michael Bostick and senior veep Evan Turner set up the project and are meeting with filmmakers for the adaptation. Carls’ credits include Where The Wild Things Are as well as Rango. The film will be produced by John Carls and his Wild Things Productions banner. The series has sold millions of copies around the world. He even solves an art heist by posing as a wall painting. He’s OK despite his appearance and can slip under doors and entertain his brother by posing as a kite. The protagonist is Stanley Lambchop, who, after being given a bulletin board by his father to put above his bed, is flattened by it in the night. ![]() The plan is to shoot the film live action, using visual effects to turn the lead character into a one-dimensional hero (why do I feel like I’ve given Deadline commenters a wealth of ammunition to discuss the current state of 3D and certain leading actors with those last two sentences?) I'm told that the original is a better story, so I will seek it out.EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media has acquired film rights to Flat Stanley, the series of children’s books created in 1964 by Jeff Brown about the adventures of a two-dimensional person stuck in a 3D world. The illustrations are fun, but I feel the text suffers from being too much abridged. Its a little unusual, but he finds he can fly like a kite, be sent on holiday through the post and can use his special skills to foil a burglary at the local art gallery. ![]() Note: the infobox on the right refers to the abridged, large-scale picture book version of this story, published in 2006. Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning to find a notice-board has dropped on him in the night, leaving him happy and healthy, but only half an inch thick. But it's not always easy being different, and soon Stanley wishes he could be just like everybody else again. And it's a hoot being posted to your friends in California for a holiday. It's fun going in and out of rooms simply by sliding under the door. He's an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem. ![]()
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