“Flanimals” is coming to the big screen with the help of Universal-based Illumination Entertainment creating a 
3-D animated feature based on the children’s book series by Ricky Gervais.
Gervais will voice the lead character, and the script will be written by Matt Selman (The Simpsons).
The four-volume series of creatures so ugly and misshapen they are cute and endearing is illustrated by Rob Steen. The story encompasses a world inhabited by these 50 species of creatures. Gervais’ character, a pudgy, perspiring purple creature, goes on a mission to change the world.
