Pamela Pettler

Temple Hill Entertainment has acquired the film rights to acclaimed 2013 picture book Journey by Aaron Becker and has attached Monster House screenwriter Pamela Pettler to adapt the script.

A lonely girl draws a magic door on her wall and escapes into a world of wonder – and danger. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat and a flying carpet that carry her on a journey. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage can set her free.

Story details being kept under wraps, but pitched as an Ocean’s Eleven-style heist movie with animals in Las Vegas.

Logline: The tale of children who befriend an amateur witch.

Logline: Story revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Twit, the two nastiest people in the world, who mastermind elaborate heists with their crew of trained animals – until one day when the animals turn the tables on the Twits, framing their ungrateful owners for what was to have been their ultimate heist and living out their days uncaged in South America.

Logline: In a future world where rising ocean levels and natural catastrophes have led to homesteads on the ocean floor, an underwater teenage boy and a surface girl join forces to uncover a government conspiracy.

Logline: A nine-year-old farm girl heads off to a parallel world to retrieve a brother who has been grabbed by a nasty fairy queen.