{"id":248057,"date":"2026-06-23T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/magic-school-bus-movie-with-elizabeth-banks-as-ms-frizzle-lands-detective-pikachu-director\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:17:44","slug":"magic-school-bus-movie-with-elizabeth-banks-as-ms-frizzle-lands-detective-pikachu-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/magic-school-bus-movie-with-elizabeth-banks-as-ms-frizzle-lands-detective-pikachu-director\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Magic School Bus\u2019 Movie With Elizabeth Banks as Ms. Frizzle Lands \u2018Detective Pikachu\u2019 Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A live-action &#8220;Magic School Bus&#8221; movie, starring Elizabeth Banks as Ms. Frizzle, is regaining momentum after six years in development.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Entertainment has acquired the rights from Universal, while Rob Letterman (&#8220;Shark Tales,&#8221; &#8220;Detective Pikachu&#8221;) has signed on to write\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xb0cz1tIfI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xb0cz1tIfI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2069466765197975686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2018Magic School Bus\u2019 movie with Elizabeth Banks has been acquired by Legendary Entertainment. Rob Letterman (\u201cShark Tales,\u201d \u201cDetective Pikachu\u201d) has signed on to write and direct the film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2069466765197975686?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132507132.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A live-action &#8220;Magic School Bus&#8221; movie, starring Elizabeth Banks as Ms. Frizzle, is regaining momentum after six years in development. Legendary Entertainment has acquired the rights from Universal, while Rob Letterman (&#8220;Shark Tales,&#8221; &#8220;Detective Pikachu&#8221;) has signed on to write\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/xb0cz1tIfI \u2014 Variety (@Variety) June 23, 2026 The \u2018Magic School Bus\u2019 movie with Elizabeth Banks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}