A planned Berenstain Bears feature film adaptation was announced in 2009 for both 20th Century Fox and Walden Media and director Shawn Levy, whose company 21 Laps would produce the film. The project was envisioned as a comedy with both live action/computer-animated elements, and an original storyline that would combine details from several Berenstain books. "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", Levy said. Comparing it to the film Elf, Levy said he thought the Berenstain Bears film would be "witty but never sarcastic".
Why It Was Cancelled[]
- As of January 2012, the project was reportedly in the script phase, but the company's option has since expired.
- Later books had strong conservative Christian themes.
Results[]
- No information about the film came up.