Refreshing off the resounding good results of âBarbie,â Mattel is partnering with Universal Images to acquire yet another live-motion movie dependent on its top-providing dolls.
The El Segundo-primarily based toy firm and the studio big announced Wednesday that they are becoming a member of forces for âMonster Substantial,â a huge-display screen feature encouraged by the trendy, plastic descendants of common creatures.
Common and Mattel have tapped Akiva Goldsman â an Oscar-successful screenwriter known for âA Stunning Mindâ and âCinderella Manâ â to make the photo less than his banner, Weed Highway. Goldsman mentioned in a statement that he has been âfascinatedâ by the Monster Significant dolls given that his daughters were being âobsessedâ with them as youngsters.
âMonster Highâ is 1 of lots of film projects in the Mattel pipeline derived from preferred playthings, together with American Girl dolls, Incredibly hot Wheels, the Magic 8 Ball, Rock âEm Sock âEm Robots and Polly Pocket. (MGM is creating the latter with âGirlsâ creator Lena Dunham and âEmily in Parisâ star Lily Collins connected.)
The toy manufacturing facility is hoping to repeat the commercial and critical triumph that was Greta Gerwigâs âBarbie,â which grossed $1.4 billion at the global box office very last yr and landed 8 Oscar nominations.
And Mattel isnât the only 1 hunting to score its future toy blockbuster.
Margot Robbie, who manufactured and starred in âBarbie,â is working on film variations of the Sims video clip activity and the Monopoly board recreation by her creation company, LuckyChap Amusement.
May perhaps the ideal âBarbieâ alum get.