22 January 2013 12:54 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
We've heard of books, plays, television shows and even songs being turned into movies, but this may be the first time I've ever heard of a movie being based on an image posted on the internet. Dwayne Johnson, action star extraordinaire, is now attached to produce and possibly star in a new film based on this drawing, titled "Teddy Bears: Protecting Innocent Children from Monsters Under the Bed Since 1902.": The drawing comes from the user begemott on the website DeviantArt (a.k.a. Alex Panagopoulos, "a Greek software engineer turned fantasy artist") and according to THR New Line Cinema is backing the illustration-based movie. The project is currently going by the working title Teddy Bear and while no director or writer has been hired at this point the studio is already looking at it as "a big four-quadrant franchise." The trade notes that the success of Seth MacFarlane's »
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