Almost four years to the day since it was last re-announced, Mattel’s Hot Wheels movie is finally seeing some movement as aptly slight as its cars’ size.
Deadline brings word that the long-stagnating project about toy cars—on and off in development for literally two decades at this point—has some writers attached. It’s said the live-action film is now in the hands of Dalton Leeb and Nicholas Jacobson-Larson. While their take hasn’t been revealed, they’re exactly the sort of writers you’d figure for this kind of thing—a duo who had a hot Black List script six years ago and since have had a lot of offers but not a lot to show for it. Lowballing them for a Hot Wheels movie script is perfectly on-brand for both Hollywood and the brand of “cars but small enough for a child to play with and that’s a movie somehow.”
