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Gervais's 'Flanimals' to become 3-D movie
Published Wednesday, Apr 29 2009, 19:08 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
The firm, housed at Universal, has picked up the feature rights to the illustrated books and tasked The Simpsons writer Matt Selman with penning a script for the project.
Gervais's four-book Flanimals series, with art by Rob Sheen, centres on imaginary animals such as Honk, Grundit and Puddloflaj. The Office creator will voice a purple creature who embarks on a world-changing mission.
"It will be great to play a short, fat, sweaty loser for a change," Gervais joked to Variety. "A real stretch."
Illumination pair Chris Meledandri and Courtney Pledger will produce the film, while Gervais is serving in an executive producer capacity.
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