After the $1.4 billion success of "Barbie", Mattel Films is placing one of its beloved doll lines on the development track.
Paramount Pictures and Maze Runner and Twilight outfit Temple Hill are developing a feature project based on the American Girl dolls.
Lindsey Anderson Beer, who recently worked with Paramount on Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, has been tapped to write and produce the pic.
Talks between Mattel, Paramount, and Temple Hill began earlier this year.
The American Girl doll line started in the late ’80s and features dolls with historically accurate backgrounds, the idea being they represent different eras of American history.
The line included supplementary books about the dolls’ lives. The first three dolls in the line — Molly, Samantha, and Kirsten — represented the World War II era, turn-of-the-century America, and 19th-century farmland, respectively.
In a statement, Beer said: “Growing up, my sister and I were American Girl girls. I had Kirsten, and she had Molly. They didn’t feel like dolls to play with, rather real people whose worlds we got to imagine ourselves in. They are historically accurate toys and accessories that feature elaborate and immersive backstories uniquely suited to bring to screen.”
American Girl is the latest feature to be put into development with Mattel Films, with other projects based on Hot Wheels, Magic 8 Ball, Polly Pocket, Matchbox, Major Matt Mason, and Masters of the Universe, among many other brands, set up at various studios.
The project will be overseen by Kevin McKeon and Ivan Sanchez at Mattel, Vanessa Joyce at Paramount, and Isaac Klausner, Laura Quicksilver, and Annika Patton at Temple Hill.
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