Purple Crayon Colors Big Screen

Pajiba reports that famed children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon is headed to the big screen.

Written by Crockett Johnson the tale follows Harold, a curious four-year-old boy who, with his purple crayon, has the power to create a world all his own simply by drawing it.

The book proved so popular that Johnson wrote 6 additional adventures with Harold's further exploits.

James Lassiter and children's book author Maurice Sendak and actor Will Smith are producing the film adaptation that will be an all-computer-rendered pic going for a The Neverending Story vibe.

Fifteen years ago Spike Jonze was attached to direct a combination live-action and animated film as his first feature, but after more than a year of work on the project, the whole thing fell through. two months before filming was to begin. Sendak, a protege of Johnson, was also involved back then. But he had Jonze adapt his own book, "Where the Wild Things Are," instead.

The initial screenplay was written Michael Tolkin and then re-written Shrek The Third’s Josh Klausner

Harold was brought to the small screen for a cable TV series