The Berenstain Bears Are Coming To The Big Screen

[Jeremy]

Where The Wild Things Are, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, and now this one! They're going to go after all the familiar favorites from our childhood!

The beloved Berenstain Bears books by Jan and the late Stan Berenstain are now going to be made into a full-length feature film and it will be a mix of live-action and computer animation.

Shawn Levy, the director of Night at the Museum, is heading the project acquired by Walden Media, the company behind the Narnia franchise. He says of the project:

"People read them as kids and can now read them to their kids. Any piece of culture that proves that enduring has something special in its DNA. It's warm-hearted comedy about family, and a different kind of family. I'd like the film to be un-ironic about its family connections but have a wry comedic sensibility that isn't oblivious to the fact that they're bears. The comedy comes from this bear family coexisting in a more recognizably real world."

They're hoping for a release date near the end of 2011.

Walden Media CEO Michael Bostick also revealed that the normally 2-D characters will be getting "makeovers" which will be a "slightly modern spin on their look."

Oh, no! Remember what happened to Dora the Explorer and Rainbow Brite when they got their makeovers?!

Just as long as they don't put Sister Bear in stripper boots a la Noah Cyrus, we may be able to get on board with this.

Are U looking forward to a Berenstain Bears movie?

[Image via AP Images.]