Of Course There S A Family Circus Movie In The Works

Of Course There’s A ‘Family Circus’ Movie In The Works

By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2012 7:00 am EST

Bil Keane debuted the Family Circus strip in 1960, basing the warm but silly family on his own. His son Jeff Keane, the real-life analogue to 3-year-old Jeffy from the comics, draws the cartoon today. Over the past fifty years, the strips have spawned dozens of book compilations and three television specials.

Now the question is how Fox, Walden, and the writers will go about turning Family Circus into a movie. The single-panel comic strips usually consist of a simple drawing and a one-liner, and have little in the way of plot or characterization. Then again, I suppose it doesn’t matter what I think — I’m not really the target audience for what’ll surely be a sentimental family movie.