The comic strip "Peanuts" long has been a subject for animated TV specials but now cartoonist Charles Schulz's little characters will come to movie screens in a live-action comedy.

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Warner Bros. and Schulz reached an agreement with filmmaker John Hughes to write and produced the movie starring Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Pigpen and, of course, Snoopy the beagle.Hughes says he will review some 42 years of the daily syndicated comic strip before beginning the screenplay. Plans are to release the movie version of "Peanuts" by the 1993 holiday season.

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