![]() ![]() I tell any young person, ‘Say yes on Friday and figure it out by Monday.’ That is the way to live your life in this business.” I’d go to Borders and get a screenplay book and look at how was formatted. “When I came to write Wishbone I’d never written for television or movies. “I came to Texas to help create the show and come up with the concept and write the pilot script and the show bible and pitch it to PBS,” she recalls. The team recruited Simpson, a New York playwright, to become the de facto head writer/showrunner. “He liked the idea and said we’d probably end up at PBS because that’s where Barney was,” Duffield says. Wishbone creator Rick Duffield was working at Lyrick Studios-the Allen, Texas, company that unleashed Barney & Friends in 1992-when he pitched Lyrick owner Dick Leach on a children’s series starring a dog. ![]() Now even if Wishbone breaks out to appear on the big screen, the new production will likely lack the voices of those who endeared Wishbone to a generation. “We did go into the Mattel building a couple of times it feels like Wishbone is locked in the basement of Mattel and we can’t seem to get that dog out of the basement!” “ wanted to do a reboot with me rebooting it because, to be honest, most of what the concept was did come from my head,” Simpson said in June. Nevertheless, Novel Tails LLC was born to revive Wishbone and develop additional children’s programming.īuckley, currently a film instructor at Texas State University and an independent producer, approached Larry Brantley, the voice of Wishbone, and the original show’s head writer/supervising producer, Stephanie Simpson, about being involved. “Joey and I put together an LLC,” Buckley says, though she told Stewart rebooting Wishbone would be a long shot. Joey Stewart, first assistant director on the original Wishbone initiated the idea for a reboot in 2015, suggesting to Wishbone producer Betty Buckley (not the Broadway star) that they should try to acquire the rights to the series from Mattel, which hadn’t done anything with Wishbone since acquiring the property in 2011. Of note, Universal/Mattel did not hire the original Wishbone team, who had recently pitched a new TV project for the on-screen pooch. While some are happy to get any new Wishbone, others raised an eyebrow that the film will be helmed by producer Peter Farrelly ( Green Book, There’s Something About Mary) working from a script by Roy Parker (his biggest credit is an unproduced screenplay from the 2019 Black List). In July, Mattel Films and Universal Pictures announced they will develop a movie based on the 1995-98 live-action PBS Kids series Wishbone-the tale of “a little dog with a big imagination” who pranced through classic literature-but fans who grew up on the show greeted the news with mixed reactions on social media. ![]()
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