{"id":105431,"date":"2019-12-13T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/lionsgate_to_produce_hybrid_live-action_movie_starring_ubisofts_rabbids"},"modified":"2019-12-13T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T00:15:00","slug":"lionsgate-to-produce-hybrid-live-action-movie-starring-ubisofts-rabbids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/lionsgate-to-produce-hybrid-live-action-movie-starring-ubisofts-rabbids\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionsgate To Produce Hybrid Live-Action Movie Starring Ubisoft&#8217;s Rabbids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/968b723875ff6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/968b723875ff6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Rabbids\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/968b723875ff6\/rabbids.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/968b723875ff6\/rabbids.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Rabbids\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Back in October, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/ubisoft_working_on_multiple_animated_shows_inspired_by_its_existing_video_game_ip\">heard<\/a> how the third-party video game giant Ubisoft was working on a number of animated series &#8220;inspired by&#8221; its existing IP such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gbc\/rayman\">Rayman<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Hungry Shark<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/watch_dogs\">Watch Dogs<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Deadline Hollywood is reporting Lionsgate has acquired the rights to produce a &#8220;hybrid live-action&#8221; movie based on the French publisher and developer&#8217;s <strong>Rabbids<\/strong> series. Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman from Mandeville Films (<em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em> and <em>Wonder<\/em>) will supposedly be producing it with Jason Altman and Margaret Boykin on behalf of Ubisoft Film &amp; Television.<\/p>\n<p>The studio is currently in &#8220;advanced talks&#8221; with Todd Strauss-Schulson to direct, and Alex Young is expected to be the executive producer. The screenplay is being written by Matt Senreich, Tom Sheppard &amp; Zeb Wells and was originally written by Todd Rosenberg at Sony. Meredith Wieck and Chelsea Kujawa will oversee the development of the film for Lionsgate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Would you be interested in watching a Rabbids movie? Comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October, we heard how the third-party video game giant Ubisoft was working on a number of animated series &#8220;inspired by&#8221; its existing IP such as Rayman, Hungry Shark and Watch Dogs. Now, Deadline Hollywood is reporting Lionsgate has acquired the rights to produce a &#8220;hybrid live-action&#8221; movie based on the French publisher and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}