Pop Mart and Sony Pictures Entertainment have made it official that a live-action Labubu movie is in the works based on the former’s The Monsters universe. As previously announced, Wonka and Paddington multi-BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Paul King is directing. He’ll be co-writing the script with Steven Levenson. The project remains in early development, a mix of live-action and CGI.
The project was announced at the Paris stop of The Monsters global exhibition tour celebrating their 10th anniversary.
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Kasing Lung will serve as an executive producer, and the producers will be King, Michael Schaefer (The Martian) and Wenxin She (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Wish Dragon). Brittany Morrissey will be overseeing for Sony Pictures.
Lung, who was born in Hong Kong and raised
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