‘The Heat’ Director Paul Feig Producing ‘Peanuts’

Raunchy comedy director says Charles Schulz’s characters were an early inspiration

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“Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig is the man who schooled Maya Rudolph on the niceties of curbside defecation while wearing a wedding gown, so it’s safe to say his next project is something of a departure.

Feig has signed on to produce “Peanuts,” Blue Sky’s animated version of Charles Schulz’s classic comic strip, as part of a production deal with Fox, a studio spokeswoman told TheWrap.

Unless Charlie Brown and Snoopy are going to undergo a radical overhaul, the whole enterprise promises to be a lot less raunchy than “Bridesmaids” or “The Heat,” the hit buddy cop comedy Feig directed last summer.

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