Paddington Director Paul King Tapped To Helm the Labubu Movie

Your Labubu is astir to beryllium a prima — a movie prima that is. Last month, Sony snagged the rights to bring the hugely fashionable kids accessory to the metallic surface successful a large way, and now, it has announced Paddington manager Paul King volition nonstop the upcoming Labubu feature.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, King volition nutrient arsenic good arsenic direct, alongside Department M and Wenxin She. Plus, Sony is moving straight with the Chinese retailer of Labubu, marque proprietor Pop Mart, connected this movie adaptation. As acold arsenic idiosyncratic to constitute it, the task is truthful aboriginal successful its improvement that they’re inactive looking to fastener successful a writer, truthful much connected that successful the future.

Labubu is the sanction of the pb monster doll of the brand, who volition undoubtedly beryllium featured successful the film. Other named characters, who volition besides astir apt amusement up successful a movie adaptation, see Zimomo, companion Mokoko, and fellow Tycoco.

The Labubu movie is coming, and thing volition halt it. Photo by Michael Simon/Getty Images for POP MART.

Labubus person go a taste improvement implicit the past fewer years. Pop Mart sold the accessory via “blind boxes,” which person contributed to some the popularity of the dolls arsenic good arsenic the request for them, arsenic fans support buying to effort to get their favourite from the unsighted box. Because of this brainsick demand, the secondhand marketplace has spiked intensely, wherever collectors volition wage insane prices to get the dolls done popular up income and reselling sites, arsenic good arsenic auctions.

But that’s lone 1 portion of the puzzle that got america to a Labubu diagnostic film. The different constituent that made the dolls stroke up successful the zeitgeist was the personage endorsement. Major stars, including superstar K-Pop radical Blackpink subordinate Lisa, person publically utilized them arsenic accessories successful the past mates of years, which raised their illustration connected a large scale.

As for King, he’s possibly champion known for directing the archetypal 2 Paddington movies, which earned him 2 BAFTA nominations. He besides wrote the 3rd movie successful the franchise, Paddington successful Peru. The past task helium directed was the Willy Wonka prequel Wonka starring Timothee Chalamet successful the rubric role, but aboriginal successful his career, helium besides antecedently directed each of the episodes of the beloved The Mighty Boosh series.

No connection yet connected erstwhile to expect the Labubu movie to deed theaters, but conscionable know: the monsters are coming... and knowing King's enactment connected gathering Paddington into a beloved British icon, we mightiness conscionable emotion them, too.

Photo by Michael Simon/Getty Images for POP MART.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.