Dolemite is My Name, is attached to produce. Johnson’s book centers on a creative four-year-old who, armed with a purple crayon, begins sketching out a reality around him, drawing landscapes and creatures and methods of transportation and eventually, trying to return home so he can fall asleep. The story was adapted into a seven minute short film in 1959, which was the sole directorial credit for actor David Piel and was narrated by Norman Rose, whose deep, clear voice served him well in narrator and announcer roles throughout his career. Check out that short below: Obviously Guion and Handelman are going to have to significantly build out the story to make it feature length, but with this premise, the possibilities are endless. And it’s been expanded before: in the early 2000s, HBO turned it into a 13-episode miniseries narrated by Sharon Stone. I’m assuming Zachary Levi will be voicing the narrator in this version, but maybe he could be the inner voice of Harold or something along those lines. Personally, I’m wondering just how “live-action” this production is going to be at the end of the day. It’s impractical to put an entire movie on the shoulders of a four-year-old child, so will the kid be a weird CG creation?