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Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American live-action/animated fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay by David Guion and Michael Handelman, based on the 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. It stars Zachary Levi as Harold, with Lil Rel Howery, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, and Zooey Deschanel in supporting roles. The film serves as a sequel to the original book, where, after the adventurous Harold grows up with his magical purple crayon and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, he finds that he has a lot to learn about real life.
Produced by John Davis through his Davis Entertainment banner, the film premiered at Culver City in Los Angeles on July 21, and was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures through Sony Pictures Releasing on August 2, 2024, in theaters. Despite receiving generally negative reviews from critics, the audience score is strikingly more positive.
Qualities That Are Possible With The Crayon
- TBA
Qualities That Aren't Possible With The Crayon
- Abysmal grasp on source material: TBD.
- Development hell:
- Bad direction from Carlos Saldanha.
- While Zachary Levi did a great job portraying Harold, and you can tell that he had a blast playing him, it is another one of his roles where his character acts like a child.
- The movie can be seen as a generic movie with the Harold and the Purple Crayon material slapped onto it.