Animated 'Game of Pets' movie reportedly in development for Amazon MGM Studios

An animated feature based on Aaron Blabey's middle-grade Game of Pets books is in development for Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline reports. Rideback and Foundation Media Partners are teaming on the adaptation.

Rideback co-CEOs Jonathan Eirich and Michael LoFaso are producing with Foundation Media's Patrick Hughes. Blabey will executive produce alongside Rideback's Nick Reynolds, according to Deadline.

The first book, Game of Pets: The Boy Who Knew Too Much, asks what if life on Earth were secretly an intergalactic game show and household pets were the animal overlords playing it. Griff, an 11-year-old with many allergies, learns from a talking axolotl named Bob that he may be the only one who can save the world, . The book is a Macmillan Children's Publishing Group title.