{"id":150649,"date":"2025-11-24T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/150649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:12:07","slug":"dave-burd-sells-animated-film-pitch-to-dreamworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/150649\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Burd Sells Animated Film Pitch to DreamWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLil Dicky<\/a> is ready for things to get animated. <\/p>\n

\n\tDave Burd<\/a>, the Dave<\/a> star known by the stage name Lil Dicky, is in talks to sell an original animated feature pitch to DreamWorks Animation<\/a>, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Plot details have not yet been disclosed for the project that the studio landed in what was described as a highly competitive situation.<\/p>\n

\n\tBurd is a multi-platinum rapper, comedian and actor. He starred on the FX<\/a> comedy series Dave, which was based on his real life and saw him serve as co-creator, executive producer and writer. Brad Pitt, Rachel McAdams and Drake were among the notable names<\/a> who made guest appearances on the series that holds a 90 percent critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n

\n\tDave\u2019s season three finale aired in May 2023, and THR reported the following year that Burd would be stepping back from the show<\/a> to pursue other ventures. At the time, a statement from FX noted that the announcement \u201cdoes not rule out the possibility of doing something in the future.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBurd released his latest album, Penith (The Dave Soundtrack), in 2024 as both his second studio album and the TV series\u2019 official soundtrack. It includes tracks from Dave\u2019s three seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis first album, Professional Rapper, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart and included collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Fetty Wap and T-Pain. In 2019, he launched Earth, a music<\/a>-led initiative calling attention to climate change.<\/p>\n

\n\tDreamWorks Animation\u2019s 2025 releases included Dog Man, The Bad Guys 2 and Gabby\u2019s Dollhouse: The Movie. Universal Pictures released a live-action remake of DreamWorks Animation\u2019s How to Train Your Dragon.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor a 2023 cover story, Burd told THR<\/a> that he holds lofty aspirations for his next projects. \u201cI want to be in things that are up for best picture discussion, or I want to make my own revolutionary comedy or drama,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cI mean, I named my production company Gr8 Films because I want to be synonymous with the best level of art.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBurd is represented by UTA and Hansen Jacobson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lil Dicky is ready for things to get animated. Dave Burd, the Dave star known by the stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[83896,91931,36217,146,20102,85,46,91932,397,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-150649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-dave","9":"tag-dave-burd","10":"tag-dreamworks-animation","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-fx","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-lil-dicky","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}