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Paramount Animation & Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort Making ‘I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story’; Josh Cooley In Talks To Direct


EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Animation is developing I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story based on the popular children’s book by Mark Pett with Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort producing under their first look deal with the Melrose Ave. lot. Josh Cooley, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Toy Story 4, is adapting and in talks to direct. Also producing are EGOT-winning songmakers Benj Pasek & […]

The duo previously worked with Maximum Effort on ditties for the Apple Original Film Spirted starring Reynolds and Will Farrell. Additional projects in development with Maximum Effort include Boy Band, Starter Villain, Eloise, Reality Vice, and Untitled Conspiracy Thriller. Pasek & Paul are represented by CAA, Kraft-Engel Management, and Schreck, Rose, Dapello, Adams, and Berlin & Dunham.

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