‘Harold & Kumar Christmas’ Director Snags Himself ‘Rascal Racoon’

Following the release of A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, director Todd Strauss-Schulson landed a couple new gigs for an adventure comedy set in Brazil and Family Getaway, the story about a family that discovers its patriarch is an assassin when a rival killer shows up, turning a vacation into a cross-country car chase. Now the filmmaker has landed an animated project as he gets comfortable at Warner Bros. Heat Vision reports Staruss-Schulson will direct an adaptation of Rascal Raccoon’s Raging Revenge, a graphic novel following a cartoon named Rascal Racoon who finds himself in a worrisome predicament. With a setting and characters that will feel very familiar to Looney Tunes fans, the story takes place in an animated world called Toonie Terrace, where Meanies are always trying to torture the Merries. However, when Rascal Raccoon finally, surprisingly, succeeds in killing in longtime nemesis Jumpin’ Jackalope, he’s left with no purpose …