‘Cartoon Cat’ Movie In Works At TriStar Pictures

EXCLUSIVE: After Siren Head sold to Warner Bros in a massive bidding war, another viral internet sensation from Trevor Henderson has found a home. In a pre-emptive deal, Sony’s TriStar Pictures has swooped in to acquire feature film rights to Henderson’s Cartoon Cat following.

This sale marks the second feature deal for Henderson in as many weeks following the five-way studio bidding war for his Siren Head creature, which landed at WB with Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield co-writing and Duffield directing.

Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Scott Glassgold and J. Todd Harris, along with Thomas Pettinelli and Marc Marcum are producing. Lee and Glassgold will also be involved in producing Siren Head.

Henderson, a respected creature designer whose work has received billions of views online, has found fresh interest from Hollywood in the wake of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms and Markiplier’s Iron Lung. In fact, it was Markiplier who was an early booster for Henderson and his Siren Head that helped kickstart Henderson’s rabid following.

TriStar is said to be looking to hit the ground running on the filmmaker search to bring Cartoon Cat to life. The menacing cat is described as an ancient hollow rot that uses the collective human awareness and memories of old cartoons as a passageway to manifest into our reality — and wreak violent havoc. Nicole Brown and Malcolm Gray of Tri-Star are responsible for wrangling the evil cat and will oversee its fast- tracked development.

Sony Pictures has a long-standing relationship with Henderson, as he did concept art on Screen Gems’ Tarot, and represents a further investment into him as a creator, and the broader creator-led space. 

Henderson is repped by Verve, Josh Dove and Marios Rush.