Mr. Popper's Penguins

All these years I've wanted to make Mr. Popper's Penguins into a "major motion picture," but was never in the position to do so. Now it is added to my endless list of "projects I wanted to make that someone else did instead."

Robert Lawson is, in many ways, the star of this book, and it was absolutely his drawings that have kept me glued to the idea for so long.

Of course, we've now reached a level of CG that makes it possible to animate hordes of "penguins" that look just like the living, breathing, real thing. Heretofore, teams of penguin trainers would have been necessary, thereby rendering the project too expensive, too difficult, nearly impossible.

Born too soon.