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" You knew this day would come: Peanuts will become a computer-animated movie. It already has a release date, November 25, 2015.  Generally, you should be wary whenever a movie executive says something like &amp;quot;This all started with our love and respect for the work of Charles Schulz,&amp;quot; as Fox has about its just-announced Peanuts adaptation. Though thankfully not about a superhero, Schulz&amp;#039;s comic comes loaded with the same possible problems of any adaptation, particularly the ones shared by another famous author of illustrated children&amp;#039;s fiction: Dr. Seuss. Like Seuss, Peanuts already has a classic 2-D animated movie behind it. Where almost all of the more modern Seuss movies have gone wrong (Jim Carrey as the Grinch, most egregiously) is in trying to make the books more adult or modern or spectacular. The Schulz family seems to have put some thought into this problem: They took two years in coming to an agreement with Fox, which has hired as its director Steve Martino, who co-directed by far the most well-liked of the modern Seuss movies, Horton Hears a Who!, which did nothing more or less than upgrade Seuss&amp;#039;s basic story in lush CG, and one of the Ice Age movies, which have gone on far too long but can&amp;#039;t be blamed for their clever, simple visual gags. Hopefully, Martino brings a similar simplicity and faithfulness to that most simple and faithful of comic characters, Charlie Brown. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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