Hello Kitty is headed to the big screen! A theatrical adaptation of the popular feline character was first announced back in 2015 by the Japanese company behind her: Sanrio. According to recent reports (via
Toonado), the studio has hired an up-and-coming screenwriter by the name of Lindsay Beer to write the feature film.
Details on the
Hello Kitty movie are currently scarce. Will it be wholly animation or a mixture of visual effects and live-action - a la
Detective Pikachu? We have absolutely no idea. What will the film and its story be about? Other than that it will feature the character of
Hello Kitty, we don't know.
All we know about the movie is that it will have a global release and be an "English language film." It's reportedly being developed by New Line Cinema, Flynn Picture Company, as well as Sanrio themselves.
Beer, the new screenwriter on the project, is credited as having worked on
Transformers: The Last Knight as well as instalments in the
Star Trek movies and Legendary's MonsterVerse. She wrote and produced
Sierra Burgess Is A Loser for Netflix and also co-wrote the song Sunflower.
Future projects that Beer is attached to are as follows:
Masters of the Universe for Sony,
Chaos Walking and
The Kingkiller Chronicles for Lionsgate, a female-centric
Fast & Furious spinoff, and
The Magic Order for Netflix.