Fan CastingUntitled live-action/animated Pingu film (2000s)

After the production of Despicable Me in 2009, Illumination founder Chris Meledandri who talks abput the live-action/CGI-animated hybrid film adaptation of "Pingu" with Ben Stiller as the producer, Will Ferrell & Adam McKay as the executive producers, Peter Hewitt as the director and Ricky Gervais wrote script as well, because he went into the screenwriter. After the release of Dr. Seuss' The Lorax in 2012, the project will be scrapped and Meledandri said "We didn't know about the Pingu film they cancelled, after Illumination Entertainment killed us and trying to make the live-action films doing it." to Garfield's director, Peter Hewitt. After in 2018, Relativity Media revived the project as well.