TOY STORY 4 Writer and Director Josh Cooley Hired to Adapt MALAMANDER for Sony

Josh Cooley, writer and director of Disney’s Toy Story 4, has been hired to adapt the best-selling children’s fantasy novel Malamander in his live-action directorial debut for Sony Pictures. Cooley will write and direct the film, which he picked up just after landing Hasbro’s animated Transformers film at Paramount. Here’s the synopsis for the story written by Thomas Taylor:

Malamander is set in Eerie-on-Sea, a seaside town filled with oddball characters and mysteries as murky as its winter fog. A young boy named Herbert Lemon, who acts as a hotel’s lost-and-found director, teams up with Violet Parma, a young girl who is looking for parents she lost as a baby, setting off on an adventure that involves a half-man, half-monster who is said to make dreams come true and a hook-handed man pursuing them.

This will be an exciting project for Cooley to take on. He did a fantastic job on Toy Story 4, as well as the work he did on Inside Out and other various Pixar properties. This sounds like a fun story. I can’t wait to see how it turns out! Does it sound like a movie you’ll be interested in seeing?

Source: THR