Sony Pictures is "putting the finishing touches on a huge deal that brings the studio The Last Human," an upcoming children's book by Lee Bacon that will be published in October by Amulet Books, Deadline reported, adding that the project, to be directed and produced by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, "had Universal, Warner Bros, Netflix, MGM/Annapurna, Paramount, New Regency and MRC all bidding.... It's easily going to be the biggest deal of the new year when it's all papered."
Lord and Miller teamed for the Oscar frontrunning animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Deadline noted that Sony is "stepping up big time for a filmmaking team that is also a creative partner on the 21 Jump Street films and will be front and center in the inevitable sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse."