WHERE’S WALDO? Check The Universal Backlot

Variety is reporting that Universal has won the right to adapt the decades old children’s book series “Where’s Waldo?” into a live action feature film.  The studio will partner with Illumination Entertainment to bring the story of a dude in a striped sweater who is really hard to pick out of a crowd to the big screen – I’m guessing that the irony of building a full-length film around a character that can not be located is lost on the producers.

The striking part of this story is not that a major Hollywood studio is pursuing a familiar children’s property that is devoid of any discernible plot -…