DreamWorks Animation plans Good Luck Trolls movie - Yahoo! News

The Good Luck Trolls, with their frizzy, pastel-colored hair, are coming to the big screen via DreamWorks Animation.

The company behind the "Shrek" franchise said Tuesday it has pacted with Denmark's Dam Things, which controls the toy line, to develop an animated feature. Siblings Adam Wilson and Melanie Wilson LaBracio will write the screenplay.

The troll doll was created in 1959 by Danish fisherman and woodcutter Thomas Dam, when he carved a doll based on Scandinavian trolls for his daughter Lajla. The toy line gained popularity in Europe and the U.S. during the early '60s, becoming a fad embraced by kids and the counter-culture.