Universal to Adapt PBS Series ‘Wishbone’ As A Feature Film

In regards to television stations creating incredibly memorable characters for kids, PBS Kids has a huge line up of lovable characters that help educate today’s youth over the years. One of those characters is a little jack russell terrier who loves books known as Wishbone. The character has been in the collective minds of kids nostalgic for PBS Kids show for quite some time and now, Wishbone will be receiving his first feature film from Universal Pictures.

The original series focused on Wishbone, a little dog teaching children about many iconic and famous literary classics from Frankenstein to Robin Hood. The show lasted from 1996 to 2001 and it’s still remember to this day for helping introduce children to so many classic stories.  The upcoming movie adaptation will be produced by Universal Studios and Mattel. Also producing the upcoming project is Green Book director Peter Farrelly, who will be producing the upcoming film with Robbie Brenner, Kevin McKeon and Lexi Barta also overseeing the upcoming project. The film’s script will be penned by Roy Parker, who was featured on the 2019 blacklist.

Producer of the film Robbie Brenner expressed a ton of excitement when discussing the upcoming project with Peter Farrelly stating that it’ll be given a new direction with a modern re-imagination of the series as a whole. Brenner expanded this by saying, “Our deep library of iconic franchises continues to offer cinematic storytelling opportunities”.  Soon enough audiences everywhere will discover a brand new story with this lovable terrier and be reminded to why Wishbone is considered such a good boy when it comes to famous fictional dogs.

Ryan Pineda: When it comes to film, animation, video games and other mediums, I can discuss for hours about how much on why certain films and animated media made me the person I am today. I adore the artistic merit that comes from a lot of pop-culture media and will definitely love to have a conversation about favorite movies any day! I have graduated in 2017 with a BA in Film and Television at the University of Arizona. Been passionate about writing about films due to always having an interesting outlook on the medium. Will always see a film and will definitely be sure to recommend it to someone that I know for a fact would love that movie. Not only that but will also give reasons for why I think that film did or did not work as a movie, and the same can go for other pieces of media like television, video games and especially animated projects.
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