{"id":756514,"date":"2026-06-23T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:04:09","slug":"magic-school-bus-moving-forward-with-elizbeth-banks-as-ms-frizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756514\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Magic School Bus&#8217; Moving Forward with Elizbeth Banks as Ms. Frizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/elizabeth-banks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elizabeth-banks_1\" data-tag=\"elizabeth-banks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Banks<\/a> is ready to take chances, make mistakes and get messy on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-magic-school-bus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-magic-school-bus_1\" data-tag=\"the-magic-school-bus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Magic School Bus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBanks is attached to star as adventurous teacher Ms. Frizzle in a live-action The Magic School Bus movie, with Legendary getting the rights to make the feature. Rob Letterman will write a treatment and direct, after working with Legendary on Detective Pikachu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tScholastic, the publisher behind the book series, will produce, along with Banks\u2019 Brownstone Productions, Marc Platt Productions and Legendary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBanks first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/elizabeth-banks-play-ms-frizzle-live-action-magic-school-bus-movie-1300295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flirted with a version of<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/elizabeth-banks-play-ms-frizzle-live-action-magic-school-bus-movie-1300295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/elizabeth-banks-play-ms-frizzle-live-action-magic-school-bus-movie-1300295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the movie back in 2020<\/a>, when it was set up at Universal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWriter Joanna Cole and illustrator Bruce Degen created the books, publishing the first in 1986. The series followed Ms. Frizzle as she took her class on out-of-this-world field trips in her yellow school bus that transformed into whatever they needed that day, be it a space ship or a submarine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLily Tomlin voiced Ms. Frizzle in an animated show that ran for 52 episodes from 1994-97, while Kate McKinnon stepped into star in Netflix\u2019s 2017 series The Magic School Bus Rides Again as the younger sister of Ms. Frizzle. Tomlin also reprised her role for the series, which ran for three seasons and 30 episodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBanks is currently on the small screen with The Miniature Wife, which bowed on Peacock in April and also starred in the South by Southwest feature DreamQuil, which hit the fest in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs for Letterman, he is already a Scholastic vet after helming the publisher\u2019s 2015 Goosebumps movie that starred Jack Black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks is ready to take chances, make mistakes and get messy on the Magic School Bus. 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