{"id":13449,"date":"2025-07-16T05:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13449\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:38:03","slug":"mgm-and-hasbro-saddle-up-for-a-live-action-my-little-pony-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13449\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM and Hasbro saddle up for a &#8220;live action&#8221; My Little Pony movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games &amp; Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n<p>Either through CGI wizardry or an unbridled amount of fur dye and peanut butter, MGM and Hasbro are developing a live-action My Little Pony movie. <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/my-little-pony-movie-live-action-amazon-mgm-hasbro-1236461858\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per Variety<\/a>, this will be the first live-action movie featuring the toy equines for obvious reasons (talking ponies with cutie marks don\u2019t exist in nature), which leaves the studios with some interesting paths to trot. For one, they could finally make a biopic about Bonnie Zacherle, the creator of My Little Pony toys, in one of those brand origin stories that were all the rage with media executives a few years back. They could take\u00a0The Lion King route and make a CG-animated movie and call it \u201clive action.\u201d Our money, however, is on a post-modern Barbie take, in which the ponies leave the confines of Ponyville, Canterlot, and Western Equestria for the human world. Who knows, maybe they\u2019ll risk being accused of Wokeness and make a documentary about bronies. Remember bronies? Simpler times.<\/p>\n<p>The news represents a significant shift from Hasbro. Last year, Bloomberg reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/hasbros-not-paying-for-any-more-toy-movies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks was through co-financing toy movies that people liked but didn\u2019t make the ever elusive boffo B.O<\/a>. In June, Transformers One director Josh Cooley stated <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/transformers-one-sequel-update-josh-cooley-response\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that Paramount Animation wasn\u2019t interested in a sequel<\/a>. Nevertheless, a week later, it was reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/movies\/news\/transformers-one-director-working-on-new-live-action-transformers-movie-4-more-are-in-the-works\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooley was developing one of the many upcoming live-action Transformers movies<\/a>. That was around the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/tv-movies\/michael-bay-returning-for-new-transformers-movie-3220137\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bay was announced as returning to the franchise<\/a>. When Bay\u2019s done with Transformers, maybe he can saddle up for My Little Pony. If that guy can make a Skibidi Toilet movie, surely he can handle a couple of magical horses.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/voice-acting-legend-tara-strong-on-loki-s-miss-minutes-1847866329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Voice acting legend Tara Strong on Loki\u2019s Miss Minutes, My Little Pony, and Rugrats<\/a><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/congratulations-bronies-there-s-a-new-my-little-pony-1847206177\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Congratulations, bronies, there\u2019s a new My Little Pony movie on the way<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games &amp; Anime Site from Paste Either through CGI wizardry or an unbridled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}