After the success of Ted, it’s perhaps not a surprise that others are looking at whether they can make movies about teddy bears. Now Dwayne Johnson is planning to do just that, with THR reporting that he plans to produce and star in a film based on the drawing – ‘Teddy Bears: Protecting Innocent Children from Monsters Under the Bed Since 1902’.
As you can see from the pic above, the film will be about a monster-fighting teddy bear. The image was drawn byDeviantArt user begemott (aka Alex Panagopoulos, “a Greek software engineer turned fantasy artist”). New Line Cinema is backing the movie, which is currently going by the working title Teddy Bear.
No screenwriter or director is attached yet, but the studio is apparently hoping to turn in into a major family franchise. There’s no news yet on the exact direction the film will take or when it might go into production.