Walden Media CEO Michael Bostick and senior veep Evan Turner set up the project and are meeting with filmmakers for the adaptation. Carls’ credits include Where The Wild Things Are as well as Rango. The film will be produced by John Carls and his Wild Things Productions banner. The series has sold millions of copies around the world. He even solves an art heist by posing as a wall painting. He’s OK despite his appearance and can slip under doors and entertain his brother by posing as a kite. The protagonist is Stanley Lambchop, who, after being given a bulletin board by his father to put above his bed, is flattened by it in the night. The plan is to shoot the film live action, using visual effects to turn the lead character into a one-dimensional hero (why do I feel like I’ve given Deadline commenters a wealth of ammunition to discuss the current state of 3D and certain leading actors with those last two sentences?) Everest and the Taj Mahal.EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media has acquired film rights to Flat Stanley, the series of children’s books created in 1964 by Jeff Brown about the adventures of a two-dimensional person stuck in a 3D world. space shuttle Discovery and made trips all over the globe, including to Mt. He has “met” world leaders such as Bill Clinton, made appearances on television shows such as The West Wing and Jeopardy!, been aboard the U.S. Over the years Flat Stanley has become a pop culture phenomenon as well as an educational tool. Classrooms around the world exchange cut-out Flat Stanleys and keep journals as a way for kids to learn about other parts of the world.
Inspired by Flat Stanley’s trip to California inside an envelope, Canadian educator Dale Hubert created the Flat Stanley Project for his grade three students and in 1995 put it on the Web. His positive attitude helps him cope with the physical disadvantage and propels him into a series of adventures. In the original book, by writer Jeff Brown and illustrator Tomi Ungerer, Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning flattened by his bulletin board. The central character in a series of children’s books dating back to 1964, Flat Stanley has a second career as a globetrotting educational tool, thanks to the Internet’s Flat Stanley Project.
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