Fri. Mar 29th, 2024


Play-doh movie

I’d imagine that we’ve all played with Play-Doh at some point in our lives but I doubt many of us have been desperately awaiting a movie based around the modeling compound. We first learned that a Play-Doh movie was in the works back in 2015 with Paul Feig in talks to direct, but next to nothing since then. For a while, it seemed as though the project had just vanished, but Hasbro and eOne have now brought it back to life.

Deadline has reported that Jon M. Chu (In the Heights) is looking to direct an animated Play-Doh movie from a script by Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick). Chu hasn’t officially signed on to direct the project just yet, but he is onboard to produce the movie alongside Gordon. “The team looks forward to bringing the audience a moldable, pliable, iconically-scented story about the importance of imagination,” Chu and Gordon said in a statement. As much as the very concept of a Play-Doh movie seems bizarre to me, I always remind myself that I once thought the same of The Lego Movie before it came out. Keep an open mind, Kevin.

The Play-Doh movie is only one of many projects in development based on Hashro’s iconic toy and game properties. We’ve got feature-film adaptations of Clue, Mouse Trap, Ouija, and more in the works, not to mention TV series adaptations of Risk and Magic: The Gathering on the horizon as well. The next major Hasbro/eOne project will be the Dungeons & Dragons movie directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley starring Chris Pine, Regé-Jean Page, Hugh Grant, Sophia Lillis, and Michelle Rodriguez. The film is slated to hit theaters on March 3, 2023 and will be followed by a Dungeons & Dragons TV series. Earlier this year, eOne closed a deal with Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice) to “creatively oversee” the series.

By Dave Jenks

Dave Jenks is an American novelist and Veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Between those careers, he’s worked as a deckhand, commercial fisherman, divemaster, taxi driver, construction manager, and over the road truck driver, among many other things. He now lives on a sea island, in the South Carolina Lowcountry, with his wife and youngest daughter. They also have three grown children, five grand children, three dogs and a whole flock of parakeets. Stinnett grew up in Melbourne, Florida and has also lived in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico. His next dream is to one day visit and dive Cuba.