Tom and Jerry head to silver screen

The popular Tom and Jerry cartoon is heading to the big screen. Warner Bros are planning to bring the warring cat and mouse to life as computer graphic characters, who would be running around in live-action settings.

The popular

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Tom and Jerry

cartoon is heading to the big screen. Warner Bros are planning to bring the warring cat and mouse to life as computer graphic characters, who would be running around in live-action settings.

The film will track the story of how

Tom and Jerry

first meet and form their rivalry before getting lost in Chicago and reluctantly working together during an arduous journey home, reports Variety. Dan Lin, currently producing the upcoming

Sherlock Holmes

and exec producer on

Terminator: Salvation

," will adapt the classic Hanna-Barbera property.

The studio had earlier successfully turned

Scooby-Doo

into a live-action franchise with two films that earned a combined 457 million dollars It had also cast the Looney Tunes characters opposite Michael Jordan in

Space Jam

.