Despite another drought of no news or updates, McDonnell established in an early 2017 interview that Mutts was still in production, with animation and voice acting beginning to shape around that point, regardless of a release date still being far away despite the movie’s revealing nearly six years prior. It would be a comedy adventure adaptation of the strip, while retaining the original aesthetic found in the comics and featuring a majority of the Mutts cast. While information wouldn’t arrive for years, in 2014, McDonnell had handed in a finalized draft of the film’s script to Fox and Blue Sky, all present via a drawing board at the latter’s headquarters in Connecticut. Blue Sky Studios, Fox’s main animation division, would animate the film, and aside from executive producing the feature, McDonnell would write the screenplay with his brother, Robert McDonnell. Following several meetings between Millero, and McDonnell, a deal was ultimately struck in July 2011 between Fox and McDonnell to produce a Mutts animated film. Sometime around the early development of The Peanuts Movie, 20th Century Fox executive Ralph Millero (who had also pitched that film to Fox) had interest in adapting another comic strip, Mutts, meeting with its creator Patrick McDonnell to discuss the hypothetical project.
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