Cartoon Network draws on comics for movies

By Kimberly Nordyke

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

"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.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter