Bear City coming to the big screen!

“Harold” writer T. Sean Shannon says he’s bringing his “Bear City” shorts – you’ll know them from “Saturday Night Live” – to the big screen.

‘’I’m doing a Bear City movie’’, tells Armstronginterviews.com. “I’ve written one. Hopefully, I’m going to shoot it this fall in Chicago. In the movie, the bears kidnap Fred Willard and make him do voice-over. That’s pretty exciting! I’m really jazzed about it!’’

Willard (“Best in Show”) will be the only human in the movie, according to Shannon, who says the film will be largely a soundless one.

‘’The thing I love about WALL-E is, in the first half hour, it’s a silent film. That’s kind of what I’m going to be doing a lot of, in the Bear City movie, with just the bears growling. You’ll know what they’re saying, but it’s not a language. WALL-E made me feel really good about knowing, ‘Yeah, this could work!’”

“I love the idea of trying to do a silent film, or trying to do something not completely silent, but completely different and really concentrate on the visual of it all. That’s my whole Bear City thing. I love Bear City.’’

In terms of where we might see such a movie? “We’re going for a theatrical release”, says Shannon.