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Cartoon Network draws on comics for movies

Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:08pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Cartoon Network is developing movies based on the comic-book titles "Firebreather," "The Vanishers" and "Mice Templar."

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"Firebreather," created by Phil Hester, and "Mice," by Mike Avon Oeming and Bryan Glass, will be developed as animated movies, while "Vanishers," created by Chuck Dixon, will be produced as a live-action movie.

"Firebreather" tells the story of awkward teenager Duncan Rosenblatt, a typical high school kid except that his dad is a fire-breathing dragon and Duncan's destiny is to protect Earth.

"Mice" is an epic about a young mouse named Karic and the prophecy that leads him to reunite the long-disbanded order of the Mice Templar, a group of mice knights.

"Vanishers" centers on fifth-graders Andy and Arvis and their time-traveling adventures as they seek to protect humanity from deadly robots who want to take control of time itself.

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