[adrotate banner=”1″]The long-joked about Where’s Waldo movie is looking closer to an actual reality. Soon Where’s Waldo will fight with Carmen Sandiego for the box office battle of missing main characters!

THR sez:

[Universal] has picked up the movie rights to the popular children’s books series from Classic Media with the aim of making a live-action family film to be produced by Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment.

Classic Media’s Eric Ellenbogen will executive produce.

Created by illustrator Martin Handford, the books featured Waldo, dressed in a red-and-white shirt, wearing glasses and carrying a walking stick, as he popped up in crowded full-page scenes.
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The book series was previously set up at Paramount and Nickelodeon, where John Schultz was attached to direct a script that had been worked on by scribes such as Adam Rifkin as well as Adam Cooper and Bill Collage.

The plot of that project revolved around Waldo, now 30, ending up traveling through time after accidentally activating a malfunctioning travel machine.