Phil Lord and Chris Miller surprised everyone last fall with their 3D Sony Animation, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. The comedy garnered an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes as well as $234 million worldwide. The directors are now doing a big-screen remake of 21 Jump Street with Jonah Hill, but Pajiba reports they will return to the world of meatballs.
A source familiar with Sony Animation has said they are attached to return to the sequel. It’s also likely it will follow the book’s sequel, Pickles to Pittsburgh. Check out the synopsis of the book below.
In Pickles to Pittsburgh, the Barretts’ sequel to the delightfully funny, bestselling Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, we check back in with Kate and Henry as they eagerly await Grandpa’s return from an unusual vacation. Kate dreams about a postcard Grandpa has sent, and the story begins. Kate and Henry pilot a plane, landing on a runway of crisp bacon strips next to a field of giant broccoli stalks and oversized hamburgers. Passing through an orange-juice rain, they approach the town of Chewandswallow, which “used to be a very ordinary town, except that instead of weather, food rained down from the sky for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.” Times have changed in Chewandswallow, and readers will love finding out how storms of gigantic food threatened normal life until eventually the Falling Food Company was created, sending food to hungry people around the world.
In addition to the Meatballs sequel, it is reported Sony is developing Dark Samurai, an “animated Samurai movie set in the future. Jerome Chen, who did the visual effects on Beowulf and The Polar Express is being considered for the directing gig.”
Yet another project over at Sony is from “Genndy Tartakovsky — who wrote, directed, and produced the animated television series Star Wars: Clone Wars and Samurai Jack.” He is tapped to direct a new animated comedy called Fixed, about “a dog that doesn’t want to be.”
Pajiba also reports on two more projects, which you can head over to their site to read. I loved Cloudy and welcome a sequel. What about you?