Two decades since announcing its intent to bring Mighty Mouse to the big screen, Paramount Animation has revealed a powerful team-up with Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort Productions to produce the 80-year-old cartoon star’s feature film debut. The studio has also tapped screenwriter Matt Lieberman (Scoob!, The Addams Family, Rumble, Free Guy) to write the script.
The producing partnership is part of Maximum Effort’s first-look deal with Paramount, which has been renewed through 2026. Other projects include an adaptation of the kids’ book series Eloise, sci-fi book adaptation Starter Villain and music industry comedy Boy Band.
Paramount had previously announced that its live-action/animation hybrid Mighty Mouse movie would be scripted by Jon & Erich Hoeber (MEG, Battleship, My Spay) back in 2019.
Lieberman is represented by CAA, Lit Entertainment Group, Mortimer PR, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark.
First introduced in 1942 as “Super Mouse,” Paul Terry’s Mighty Mouse appeared in 80 theatrical cartoons produced by Terrytoons for Fox through the mid-20th century, which later ran on CBS. The rodent send-up of Superman uses his powers of flight and super strength to battle baddies (such as his arch-enemy, Oil Can Harry the cat) and save innocent civilians from odd misadventures.
The character was twice revived in animation, first by Filmation Studios (1979) and then in Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987) from Ralph Bakshi, who had worked at Terrytoons. He has also inspired multiple comic-book series, most recently from Dynamite Entertainment.
[Source: Variety]
