The project is described as a dark comedy about a man whose teddy bear comes to life and in typical Macfarlane style the bear is a marijuana smoking, rude, misogynistic, video game playing menace. So basically your average American college kid.
The big news is that the production has managed to get Mark Whalberg to play the lead role a character described as “an average Boston guy, normal except for the childhood wish he made that his teddy bear could come to life — and it did. Years later, the boy is an adult, and the bear is still his best friend. But the bear, a carousing, irresponsible slacker, is getting in the way of his buddy committing to adulthood and the girl he loves.”
I have every confidence that Macfarlane will be able to pull this off, anyone who wants to doubt his directorial chops needs to check out the season 9 premiere episode of Family Guy 'And Then There Were Fewer' which is based around a murder mystery and is very competently done, with heavy references to Hitchcock pulled off well.
The budget is set at a whopping $65 Million so Universal must also think it's a sure bet !
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