{"id":483499,"date":"2026-03-19T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483499\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:46:08","slug":"labubu-movie-adds-screenwriter-steven-levenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483499\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Labubu’ Movie Adds Screenwriter Steven Levenson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPop Mart and Sony Pictures\u2019 \u201cLabubu<\/a>\u201d movie has officially unveiled the creative team that will bring the global phenomenon to the big screen.<\/p>\n

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BAFTA-nominated director Paul King<\/a> (\u201cWonka,\u201d \u201cPaddington\u201d) will produce and direct the film, and will co-write the screenplay with award-winning screenwriter and playwright Steven Levenson<\/a>. Levenson has been nominated for a Tony (for \u201cDear Evan Hansen), a WGA Award (\u201cTick Tick \u2026 Boom!\u201d) and an Emmy (FX\u2019s \u201cFosse\/Verdon\u201d). The project, which is still in early development, will be a live\u2011action and CGI hybrid.<\/p>\n

\n\tThese key developments were announced by Labubu creator Kasing Lung and King at the Paris stop of Pop Mart\u2019s \u201cThe Monsters\u201d global exhibition tour, celebrating their 10th anniversary. A decade ago, Lung launched the whimsical world of Labubu via the picture book series, collectively known as \u201cThe Monsters Trilogy.\u201d From there, the toys, which are produced and sold exclusively by China-based retailer Pop Mart, became a pop culture fixation. Sony Pictures acquired screen rights<\/a> to the Labubu IP in 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tLung will serve as an executive producer on the film. Producers will be King, Michael Schaefer (\u201cThe Martian\u201d) and Wenxin She (\u201cA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,\u201d \u201cWish Dragon\u201d). Brittany Morrissey will oversee the project for Sony Pictures.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPaul King and Kasing Lung in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop Mart and Sony Pictures\u2019 \u201cLabubu\u201d movie has officially unveiled the creative team that will bring the global…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,59891,2839,127368,171781,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-labubu","tag-movies","tag-paul-king","tag-steven-levenson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}