Jennifer Lopez set to produce Bob the Builder movie

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Jennifer Lopez is set to produce a big-screen adaptation of standard youngsters’s sequence Bob the Builder.

The movie challenge is being developed by Mattel, who personal the rights to Bob the Builder and who loved blockbuster success with final yr’s Barbie.

Bob the Builder first debuted on CBBC 25 years in the past, however the new movie is set to replace his story.

The plot, from a script by Felipe Vargas, will see Roberto, or Bob, journey to Puerto Rico for a significant building job, the place he “takes on issues affecting the island and digs deeper into what it means to build”.

Anthony Ramos, whose credit embody In the Heights, will play Bob.

In an announcement, Robbie Brenner, president of Mattel Films stated: “Pairing Anthony and Felipe’s genius vision for the story will capture this beloved character in a manner that audiences who grew up with Bob will recognise, and all-new audiences will enjoy.”

Ramos, who can also be producing alongside Lopez, stated some elements of the movie had been impressed by his personal life.

“For years, Bob the Builder’s characters have inspired young people around the world,” stated Ramos. “A movie about friends working together, a celebration of a beautiful home they share, and how love can help to conquer any obstacle in your way. Can we fix it? Yes, we can!”

Bob the Builder first aired on CBBC between 1999 and 2011 and featured the titular masonry specialist and his colleague Wendy taking up quite a lot of building jobs.

The animated sequence was a hit worldwide, typically with a country-specific voice solid. In 2011, Bob was bought together with Thomas & Friends to Mattel for $680m.

Mattel has been eager to capitalise on additional properties following the success of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Earlier this week, that movie was nominated for a complete of eight Oscars, together with Best Picture.

The Academy’s failure to nominate Gerwig for Best Director or Margot Robbie for Best Actress has been broadly debated, with even former US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wading into the debate.

In her five-star assessment of Barbie, The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey wrote: “Barbie is one of the most inventive, immaculately crafted and surprising mainstream films in recent memory – a testament to what can be achieved within even the deepest bowels of capitalism.

“It’s timely, too, arriving a week after the creative forces behind these stories began striking for their right to a living wage and the ability to work without the threat of being replaced by an AI. It’s a pink-splattered manifesto to the power of irreplaceable creative labour and imagination.”