In a homogenous, Hollywood-wide effort to leave no corner of your childhood unscathed, Waterman Entertainment has acquired the rights to The Brave Little Toaster in order to develop it as a computer-animated feature.
For those not familiar with the 1980s/early-1990s animation, Toaster followed a sentient toaster, vacuum cleaner, electric blanket and lamp on a journey through the woods to re-join their masters, who have accidentally abandoned them at a vacation cabin.
Sound like something you've seen before? Actually, John Lasseter originally pitched Toaster in his pre-Pixar years at Disney. When he left for greener CG pastures, Hyperion Pictures and Kushner-Locke made the film in then-standard 2D.
Waterman Entertainment -- known for family-friendly, CG-laden rejiggering films like Stuart Little and Casper -- has plans to update the 1987 feature to include more modern technology, like the iPhone. Commercial plugs should be an unsurprising inclusion as Waterman is also a rights-management company and has its eyes on multi-platform tie-ins for its new batch of properties.