Dreamworks has How to Train Your Dragon, Disney has Pete’s Dragon, and now Fox has Puff, the Magic Dragon.
Trolls director Mike Mitchell is developing a new movie with Fox Animation based on the 1963 Peter, Paul & Mary folk song “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Puff, an ageless dragon, will come to life in a live-action/animation hybrid movie.
The project is being overseen by Fox Animation president Vanessa Morrison, and exec Nate Hopper, who moved last fall to Fox from Sony Pictures Animation specifically to spearhead a plan to launch more family live-action/cg hybrid movies. Safehouse Pictures’ Tory Tunnell and Joby Harold and Weed Road’s Akiva Goldsman will produce, according to Deadline, which first reported the news.