“With a crayon, anything’s possible!”
The children’s classic “Harold and the Purple Crayon” is headed to the big screen.
Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Tanya Reynolds and Zooey Deschanel star in the first animated/ live-action film adaptation of the 1955 picture book illustrated by Crockett Johnson, which follows a 4-year-old boy named Harold whose magical purple crayon allows him to draw his dreams into reality.
Sony Pictures Entertainment released the movie’s trailer on Wednesday morning.
“When someone tells a story, they create an entire world,” the narrator explains as the camera pans over Harold’s animations and a small statue of the fictional character.
“But there are legends of characters so real, that they step right into this world.”
Now Harold is all grown up and played by Levi, who “draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world,” according to the movie’s description.
Chaos ensues when he uses that magical purple crayon in adulthood. Things take a turn when “the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands.”
It’s then up to Harold and “his friends’ creativity to save both the real world and his own.”
The project is directed by Carlos Saldanha and produced by John Davis.
“Harold and the Purple Crown” hits theaters in August 2024.
“It’s #HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon trailer day, everybody!” posted Levi to X, formerly Twitter. “This August, there’s gonna be a #PurpleReign!”
