{"id":2336,"date":"2026-06-23T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:08:30","slug":"magic-school-bus-movie-in-the-works-at-legendary-with-elizabeth-banks-playing-ms-frizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2336","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Magic School Bus\u2019 Movie in the Works at Legendary with Elizabeth Banks Playing Ms. Frizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg> <span>Logo text<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nElizabeth banks is ready to take chances, make mistakes and get messy on the Magic School Bus.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2334\">Buddy Guy to Celebrate 90th Birthday With Concert Featuring Eric Clapton, John Mayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBanks is attached to star as adventurous teacher Ms. Frizzle in a live-action <em>The Magic School Bus<\/em> movie, with Legendary getting the rights to make the feature. Rob Letterman will write a treatment and direct, after working with Legendary on <em>Detective Pikachu<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tScholastic, the publisher behind the book series, will produce, along with Banks\u2019s Brownstone Productions, Marc Platt Productions and Legendary.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBanks first flirted with a version of the movie back in 2020, when it was set up at Universal. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tWriter Joanna Cole and illustrator Bruce Degen created the books, publishing the first in 1986. The series followed Ms. Frizzle as she took her class on out-of-this-world field trips in her yellow school bus that transformed into whatever they needed that day, be it a space ship or a submarine.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2332\">ESPN\u2019s Matt Miller Has Arm Amputated After Car Accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tLily Tomlin voiced Ms. Frizzle in the 1990s animated show, which ran for 52 episodes from 1994-97, while Kate McKinnon stepped into star in Netflix\u2019s 2017 series <em>The Magic School Bus Rides Again<\/em> as the younger sister of Ms. Frizzle. Tomlin also reprised her role for the series, which ran for three seasons and thirty episodes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBanks is currently on the small screen with <em>The Miniature Wife<\/em>, which bowed on Peacock in April and also starred in the South by Southwest feature <em>DreamQuil<\/em>, which hit the fest in March.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs for Letterman, he is already a Scholastic vet after helming the publisher\u2019s 2015 <em>Goosebumps<\/em> movie that starred Jack Black.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2330\">Netflix Unveils First Looks at \u2018One Piece\u2019 Anime, \u2018Blue Eye Samurai\u2019 Season 2 at Annecy Showcase<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years after she circled a Magic School Bus movie, Elizabeth Banks is ready to go on that learning journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1901,1902],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-elizabeth-banks","tag-the-magic-school-bus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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