Dear God In Heaven, Will Ferrell Is Making AManimalMovie

I do n’t live if this news program proves we live the in the best of all potential nerd worlds or the destruction time , but I know it demonstrate something : Will Ferrell and Adam McKay ’s Gary Sanchez Productions will turn the 1983 barely - cult non - hit TV show Manimal into a movie .

Manimal , for the many , many , many of you unfamiliar with it , is about a human being who can turn into any animal and uses this power to fight criminal offence . It was cancel after eight episodes . Please watch the original hatchway credits enter its protagonist , Dr. Jonathan Chase ( “ master copy of the secrets that carve up man from animal , animal from man — Manimal ! ” ) , and see how seriously this show took itself :

It ’s dependable to say that Ferrell and McKay ’s Manimal wo n’t be quite so earnest , althoughDeadlinesays original series conscientious objector - creator Glen A. Larson will help conscientious objector - produce it . In even good news , Key & Peele executive producers Jay Martel and Ian Roberts will publish the book , which is an super hopeful preindication .