Philip Lord and Chris Miller told SCI FI Wire that they will co-write and co-direct a computer-animated film based on Judi Barnett's classic children's picture book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, turning it into a comic homage to disaster movies such as Twister and Armageddon. Meatballs is in development at the newly formed Sony Pictures Animation, part of the studio's initial slate of family-friendly CG films. 

The book is a tall tale about a town where food falls from the sky. Lord and Miller (MTV's Clone High) took that premise and morphed into a high concept. "We loved the book," Lord said in an interview at a preview of SPA's slate in Culver City, Calif., on Aug. 15. "We both grew up with the book. It's my favorite kid's book. Chris' too." He added that they thought it was a natural to become "a great disaster movie for kids. And ... that was always our instinctual take from the get-go. I think it's because those disaster movies are kind of silly, and they take themselves really seriously. And we felt like, it's sort of a silly idea for a movie in the first place. And giving it a little bit of a tongue-in-cheek comedy treatment felt like the way to go."

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... : alan Chris Miller and Phil Lord were behind 'Clone High', which i loved for the single season it existed on mtv. August 17, 2006

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