Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Are Reportedly Making a WHERE'S WALDO Movie
I had forgotten all about this, but about five years ago, Paramount, Universal, and MGM all tried to make a movie out of Where's Waldo?, the once-popular collection of illustrated children's books. If you lived under a rock in the '80s and '90s, the basic rundown involved artist Martin Handford creating images of crowded areas, and the reader had to identify Waldo, a guy who wore a distinctive red-and-white-striped shirt and beanie. Those earlier attempts stalled, but MGM still has the rights and now it sounds like Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are going to be the ones to crack the story and bring an adaptation to the big screen.
The Tracking Board reports that the duo will produce the new movie, and if you're like me, I'm sure a lot of you are wondering how the heck anyone is going to turn this into a movie. Earlier versions of the script involved Waldo accidentally triggering a time machine that sends him through the ages, leaving him on a quest to return to the woman he loves, but it's unclear if Rogen and Goldberg are going to write their own draft or just produce the film based on the existing screenplay.
If we're lucky, maybe it'll turn out to be something like this parody from all the way back in 2007: