Writers hired to gently mock the terrible burdens of child-rearing for Family Circus movie
Although life itself—what with its many gently comical misunderstandings and accidental malapropisms that tickle the belly of baby Jesus—is already a perfectly dandy script for a Family Circus movie, sometimes you also need a dashed line to follow to keep you from becoming too distracted with petting a dog to proceed to talk to the mailman, and other things that are hilariously true. And so, writers have finally been hired for Fox's two-years-in-the-making, live-action adaptation of Bil Keane's comic panel about the exhausted parents to several hideously misshapen children, whose swollen heads are so dizzy with intracranial pressure that they're constantly at the mercy of a world whose nuances they can never hope to comprehend, and who spend their days in confusion, tormented by the hallucinations of malevolent spirits Ida Know and Not Me.