American Girl Doll Movie produced by Mattel, Paramount – The Hollywood Reporter

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After the success of $1.4 billion BarbieMattel Films is putting another of its beloved doll lines on the development track.

Paramount Pictures and Maze runner And twilight Temple Hill is developing a feature project based on the American Girl dolls, with Lindsey Anderson Beer, who recently worked with Paramount on Pet Cemetery: Bloodlineswas set to write and produce the project.

Talks between Mattel, Paramount and Temple Hill began earlier this year.

The American Girl doll line began in the late 1980s and features dolls with accurate historical backgrounds, the idea being that they represent different eras of American history. The line included supplementary books about the lives of the dolls. The first three dolls in the line — Molly, Samantha, and Kirsten — represent the World War II era, turn-of-the-century America, and 19th-century farmlands, respectively.

“We grew up, my sister and I,” Bear said He was American girls. I had Kirsten, and she had Molly. They didn’t feel like dolls for us to play with, but rather real people whose worlds we had to imagine for ourselves. They are historically accurate toys and accessories that feature elaborate, immersive backstories that are uniquely suited to being brought to the screen.

American Girl is the latest feature to be developed with Mattel Films, with other projects based on Hot Wheels, Magic 8 Ball, Matchbox, Major Matt Mason, Masters of the Universe and Polly Pocket, among many other brands, set to take place at various studios.

American Girl It will be overseen by Kevin McKeon and Evan Sanchez at Mattel, Vanessa Joyce at Paramount, and Isaac Klausner, Laura Quicksilver and Annika Patton at Temple Hill.

Beer is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Cheryl Snow at Gang Tire.