Editing Mutts (comic strip) (section)

==Cancelled film==
In July 2011, it was reported that [[20th Century Fox Animation]] and [[Blue Sky Studios]]<ref>{{cite web |date=July 22, 2011 |title='MUTTS' Comic Strip Headed to Big Screen from 20th Century Fox (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mutts-comic-strip-headed-big-214492/ |access-date=March 24, 2022 |publisher=Facebook}}</ref> were developing a feature-length animated film based on the ''MUTTS'' comic. Patrick McDonnell and his brother Robert McDonnell were hired to write the script, while Patrick would also executive produce.<ref>{{cite news | last=Kit | first=Borys | url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mutts-comic-strip-headed-big-214492 | title='Mutts' Comic Strip Headed to Big Screen From 20th Century Fox (Exclusive) | work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] | date=July 22, 2011 | access-date=July 23, 2011}}</ref> In late 2014, Patrick delivered the final draft of the film script, which was then, according to him, on a drawing board.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cavna|first1=Michael|title=Mutts ADO ABOUT 'NOTHING': Patrick McDonnell gives the gift of warmth in wonderful 'Mutts' musical's Kennedy Center world premiere|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/11/22/mutts-ado-about-nothing-patrick-mcdonnell-gives-the-gift-of-warmth-in-wonderful-mutts-musicals-kennedy-center-world-premiere/|access-date=August 2, 2015|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 22, 2014|quote=Just a month earlier, McDonnell says, he handed in a final draft of a film script to Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios – the same companies that are teaming for the "Peanuts" movie due out next November. "Mutts," as a film, is literally on the drawing board. "As a matter of fact, I’m going [to Connecticut] Tuesday to Blue Sky to look at some art … ," McDonnell says.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Fiamma|first=Andrea|language=it|title=20 anni di Mutts. Intervista a Patrick McDonnell|url=http://www.fumettologica.it/2014/09/20-anni-di-mutts-intervista-a-patrick-mcdonnell/|website=[[Fumettologica]]|access-date=March 16, 2016|date=September 5, 2014}}</ref> Blue Sky was closed in April 2021, ending development on the film.<ref name="DeadlineStudioClose">{{Cite web|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|date=February 9, 2021|title=Disney Closing Blue Sky Studios, Fox's Once-Dominant Animation House Behind 'Ice Age' Franchise|url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/blue-sky-studios-closing-disney-ice-age-franchise-animation-1234690310/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209175505/https://deadline.com/2021/02/blue-sky-studios-closing-disney-ice-age-franchise-animation-1234690310/|archive-date=February 9, 2021|access-date=February 9, 2021|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref>