Legendary Entertainment has picked up the film and TV rights to famed newspaper comic strip “Heathcliff” with plans to develop both kinds of adaptations simultaneously.
George Gately created the strip about the iconic orange cat in 1973. His nephew, Peter Gallagher, currently writes and draws it with the strip still running in over 1,000 newspapers and boasting more than 80 million daily readers.
Gallagher will act as a producer on these adaptations alongside Steve Waterman (“Alvin and the Chipmunks,” “Stuart Little”). The strip was previously adapted into two cartoon series in the 1980s, both featuring Mel Blanc voicing the cat.
Source: THR
