Harold and the purple crayon movie bundling live actions and animations, is an adaptation of Johnson’s famous children’s book titled also with the same name. It is the movie of Carlos Saldanha inside and out with the cooperation of Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation and John Davis’ Davis Entertainment. Here is the cast; Zachary Levi plays Harold, Lil Rel Howery is Moose, Benjamin Bottani is Mel, Zooey Deschanel, Jemaine Clement acts as Gary, Tanya Reynolds is Porcupine, Alfred Molina, Ravi Patel as well as Camille Guaty define the roles as well as Pete Gardner and Seth Robbins. It was in 2010 that the producing companies in name of Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation and Will Smith’s Overbook Entertainment declared that they were at the initial stages of Animation adaptation of Harold and the purple crayon. The Jus Klausner was selected to write the screenplay, while David O. Russell was asked to help with the rewritings. Although he worked more than a year on the project, he had to drop it, when the new management persons came and took over from them. In 2016, it was said that Dallas Clayton had also be suggested incorporating the words in the film. In the nineties a 3D computer animation became hugely popular and in 2021, it was announced that the Harold and the purple crayon movie would now involve studio-made live scenes and Animation, with Zachary Levi playing the main protagonist. With Carlos Saldanha on the directorial bench, though, the screenwriters were David Guion and Michael Handelman who replaced Klausner and Clayton. Casting that is sure to delight includes comedian Lil Rel Howery as well as Zooey Deschanel, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Ravi Patel, Camille Guaty, Pete Gardner, and Seth Robbins.