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Bruce McDonald has had the rights since 1991 to make an Ed movie, for which he plans to use Yummy Fur as the title. The film will possibly use stop-motion animation, but the project has yet to get off the ground. At one point, McDonald had hoped to have Macaulay Culkin star as Ed, Rip Torn as president Reagan and Drew Barrymore as the First Lady. In 2000, it was reported that the movie would have a budget of $6,000,000, but it was unable to get the necessary financial backing. A script had been written by Don McKellar, and later with John Frizzell.
The movie is alluded to in one installment of a series of strips the City of Toronto commissioned Brown to do as part of their Live with Culture campaign that was run in Now magazine for six weeks in 2007. In the strip, a zombie and his human girlfriend attend a screening of McDonald's still-unmade adaptation. McDonald managed to sneak Brown's graphic novel into scenes in his film The Tracey Fragments the same year.
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