EXCLUSIVE: Lil Rel Howery is set to join Zachary Levi in Sony Pictures’ live-action adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon, with Academy Award nominee Carlos Saldanha directing.David Guion & Michael Handelman wrote the screenplay, which is based on Crockett Johnson’s best-selling children’s book.
John Davis is producing through Davis Entertainment. Published in 1955, the original children’s book told the story of a four-year-old who, with the power of his crayon, created worlds around him.
The book was a smash and was followed by six more.Howery most recently starred opposite Ryan Reynolds in the box office hit film, Free Guy as well as the comedy hit Vacation Friends, which His other credits include Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock, Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed and box office hit film, Get Out, six time Oscar-nominated film Judas and The Black Messiah and Bad Trip.
He is repped by Fourth Wall Management, UTA, The Aziza Work Group, and Cohen Gardner LLP.New and returning series on broadcast, cable and streamingSeries that made it or didn’t make it in 2020-21Broadcast networks’ fall lineups and schedules
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