Disney recently bought the feature film rights to Scott Christian Sava’s graphic novel Pet Robots, which “tells the fun-filled adventure of four kids who lose their way while on a field trip to the Rooty Tooty Toy Company and who stumble upon four military ‘toy’ robots that code themselves to each of the four children, follow them home, and earn the wrath of Rooty Tooty’s evil CEO Vandenburger Meisterburger.”
Chris Bender and JC Spink’s Benderspink will produce the film, with Jake Weiner slated to be the executive producer and Jon Silk the co-producer.
“It’s a dream come true,” said Sava. “Not only will I get to work with the great guys at Benderspink, who’ve been producing some stellar work in bringing graphic novels to life on the big screen, but Disney? I grew up on Disney characters. My kids are growing up on Disney characters. I’m honored to have Pet Robots and Jake, Chris, Tammy, Tommy, Rock, Wind, Aqua, and Skye be a part of Disney’s rich tradition.”
Spink said “We read Pet Robots and loved the tone and characters. We pursued producing a film adaptation because we saw this as an opportunity to create a wonderful event comedy film in the vein of Gremlins meets Ghostbusters. We miss those kinds of movies and are excited to help put one together that’s based on Scott’s work.”
Pet Robots is published by Blue Dream Studios, which is owned by Sava.