A Live-Action Popeye The Sailor Man Film Is In The Works [Video]

The iconic spinach-eating sailor man, Popeye, is returning to screens in a live-action Popeye The Sailor Man movie, which is currently in development. According to Variety, Chernin Entertainment is collaborating with King Features, which owns the Popeye intellectual property, to bring this big-budget feature to life.

Fans have long imagined who will best play Popeye, creating self-made trailers featuring Vin Diesel or Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, as the beloved character. Screenwriter Michael Caleo, who worked on Sexy Beast, The Family, and The Sopranos, is the screenwriter behind the much-anticipated production.

A ‘Popeye’ live-action film is in the works, 95 years later

It has been 95 years since Popeye was created as a character in the 1929 comic Thimble Theater, and has since become a part of popular culture with ensuing animated features, and is arguably one of the earliest templates for mass merchandising for decades. Only two years ago, Popeye was revealed to have …