Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and their friends will headline their own film in 2015, appropriately titled The Peanuts Movie. The animated feature was co-written by Peanuts comic strip creator Charles Schulz’ son and grandson, Craig and Bryan Schulz (respectively), as well as the relative newcomer Cornelius Uliano. Thus far, the involvement of the Schulz clan seems to have helped the project with remaining true to the spirit of its source comics (and their previous TV/film adaptations), judging by the Peanuts Movie footage unveiled to date.
Charles Schulz’ Peanuts comics were characterized by their rich humanism; this was further reflected by Schulz’ decision to incorporate a black character named Franklin Armstrong into the comic strip’s ensemble of characters, during the late 1960s. 20th Century Fox has unveiled a new Peanuts Movie TV spot (complete with some previously-unreleased footage) that focuses on Franklin in ...
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