Legendary has picked up the feature and TV rights to, the comic strip featuring the cocky and street-smart cat-about-town, Heathcliff. The company plans to develop both simultaneously.
The strip was created by George Gately in 1973 and ran in thousands of newspapers at its height. It is now written and drawn by Gately’s nephew, Peter Gallagher. Gallagher will act as a producer with Steve Waterman, who has served as an exec producer on such family fare as 1999’sThe strip was adapted into two cartoon series in the 1980s, one produced by Ruby-Spears Productions and the second by DIC Entertainment, with both featuring animation icon Mel Blanc in one of his last voice roles.
The feline also had his own Marvel comic in the ’80s. The title was launched in 1985 as part of Marvel’s family imprint Star Comics, which was later folded into theThe comic strip has been in syndication for 32 years, in 20 languages and 57 countries. According to Legendary, it is currently published in over 1,000 newspapers and has more than 80 million daily readers., another feline-focused strip.
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