Luke Carroll

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Bron Animation has picked up the rights to Lois Lowry’s popular children’s novel The Willoughbys. The book will be adapted by animation veterans Kris Pearn and Adam Wood, with Wood also stepping in to direct.

Follows the four Willoughby children: Timothy, twin brothers Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and little sister Jane, who are abandoned by their oblivious parents and must learn how to create a new family of their own.

Logline: When a hapless janitor in Supervillain City’s Bad Guy Museum accidentally ends up in a dangerous mechanized suit, the easygoing, nonconfrontational head of the henchmen’s Union of Evil has to become a hero in order to save the janitor, and the city.