StudioCanal is creating a Pippi Longstocking animated TV sequence with David Heyman’s Heyday Movies, Submarine and The Astrid Lindgren Firm.
Screenwriter Sara Daddy is at work on a script for the sequence based mostly on Pippi Longstocking, the famously super-strong, energetic and type woman with the crimson pigtails from the traditional Astrid Lindgren ebook sequence. StudioCanal and Heyday Movies, which collectively produced the vastly profitable options Paddington and Paddington 2, first thought-about a movie based on the long-lasting red-headed kids’s determine, earlier than selecting the present trendy retelling of the Longstocking character for TV.
First seen in print in 1945 and based mostly on bedside tales Swedish writer Lindgren would inform her daughter, the Pippi Longstocking books have since been translated into 80 languages with greater than 90 million copies bought worldwide. There have already been a number of TV and movie variations.
StudioCanal will deal with worldwide distribution for the TV sequence, with manufacturing set to start this October. The producer credit are shared by David Heyman, Rosie Alison, Rob Silva, Simon Quinn and Karen Davidsen, and with Ron Halpern is overseeing for StudioCanal.
“Pippi Longstocking is a beloved icon, with her uniquely unpredictable way of seeing the world. Joyful, free-spirited, playful, contrary, kind, fiercely resilient, she questions all the rules of the game, and her originality remains as fresh as ever. We could not be more excited about unleashing Pippi once again in her own new animated series, collaborating with a kindred spirit writer Sara Daddy, the brilliantly inventive animating team at Submarine, the Astrid Lindgren Company, and StudioCanal,” Heyman, Alison and Silva at Heyday mentioned in a press release.
