Zach Galifianakis and Elizabeth Banks to Star in Beanie Babies Craze Film at Apple
thewrap.comApple Original Films has landed the rights to “The Beanie Bubble,” a movie about the ’90s craze surrounding the lovable plush Beanie Babies toys that will star Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook and Geraldine Viswanathan. “The Beanie Bubble” is co-directed by Kristin Gore, an Emmy nominee known for “SNL” and “Futurama” and Damian Kulash, best known as the front man of the rock band OK Go.
Their film is inspired by the Beanie Babies craze and particularly the female relationship to the toys and the idea of the American Dream.
It follows the women who helped surround the craze and helped make Ty Warner’s toys into a phenomenon but whose names and legacies weren’t represented on each Beanie’s heart-shaped tags.
Gore also wrote the screenplay based on the book “The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute” by writer Zac Bissonnette.Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Karen Lunder, president of Imagine features, are producing “The Beanie Bubble.” The project is the first of a first-look deal between Imagine and Apple for scripted films.
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