Axis Studios has teamed up with animation director Pete Candeland (Gorillaz music movies and The Beatles: Rock Band online game cinematic) and screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (Scary Tales to Inform in The Darkish, Noticed collection, The Collector collection, Pacific Rim) on a brand new animated collection, Gods and Monsters Chapter One: The Dying of Victor Frankenstein. Impressed by the graphic novel by Gris Grimly, the challenge guarantees to interrupt new floor for horror in animation.
The collection is about in opposition to a visually fantastical European backdrop and impressed by Grimly’s punk rock re-imagining of well-known monsters, presenting a brand new tackle the manipulative relationship between Victor Frankenstein, his companion in crime Elizabeth, their famously monstrous creation, in addition to different re-imagined monster horror icons.
In line with Axis Studios, the present will function cutting-edge animation coupled with Candeland’s signature cool visuals and wit, woven along with modern-day themes of the hazards of know-how, materialism, alienation, and music to create atmospheric horror.
Govt producers embrace Jason Lust of Soluble Fish Productions (Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio), Mike Callaghan, Reuben Liber of Ranger 7 Movies, and Axis Studios.
The whole group of Lust, Callaghan, Candeland and Axis Studios government producer Andrew Pearce will likely be attending Annecy 2023 subsequent week, and might be reached by way of the Annecy Networking web site.
Verve Expertise and Literary Company signify Candeland; Verve Expertise and Literary Company and Underground signify Melton and Dunstan; Gotham Group represents Grimly; Gersh represents Lust and Soluble Fish Productions; and Tarik Heitmann of Kinetic Media represents Axis Studios.
Supply: Axis Studios
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
