Who lives in a pineapple under the sea and is about to head to the big screen for his third feature film? SpongeBob Squarepants! His next theatrical release will go backwards, to show us how our favorite Krabby Patty line cook met his Bikini Bottom friends as a young sponge. It sounds like it’s going to be absolutely epic, not because it’s going to be an origin story though, and not even because it’s going to be an homage to an iconic Hollywood classic, but because it’s going to be scored by Hans freaking Zimmer.In a story we came across at ScreenCrush, the folks at Cartoon Brew report that at a recent VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy, Paramount’s animation president Mireille Soria announced a 2020 release date for the long rumored third big screen movie for the beloved Nickelodeon cartoon. Titled SpongeBob SquarePants: It’s A Wonderful Sponge, which will be a tribute to the holiday classic It’s A Wonderful Life. Soria said it will explore “the origin of how little SpongeBob met the rest of the Bikini Bottom gang at summer camp” and “the film’s opening will take place at Camp Coral when all of our favorite characters meet for the first time.”
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