Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures has snapped up the rights to the bestselling children’s book The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, and has tapped Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps to produce a live-action/animated hybrid feature adaptation.
The Day the Crayons Quit follows a box of crayons whose inhabitants go on strike against their young owner after growing sick of how they’re being used, as their individual colors dictate very limited day-to-day existences for each crayon. It is being viewed by Sony as a potential franchise, with the book’s sequel The Day the Crayons Came Home having sold over 3 million copies and spent more than 200 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
21 Laps is certainly busy at present, having recently wrapped the second season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, along with the feature films The Darkest Minds, Kin and Kodachrome.
Originally published June 21, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
