David Steward II’s Lion Forge Leisure (Academy Award-winning Hair Love) has partnered with Folktellers Studios to develop and produce an animated collection based mostly on “Hero’s Journey the Collection” — a set of tales that discover the rise to fame of outstanding black artists through the segregation period.
The collection follows the legendary tour route of juke joints and theatres, referred to as the “Chitlin Circuit,” that unfold throughout the nation from the Nineteen Thirties by means of the Nineteen Sixties, the place black artists and musicians performed and entertained crowds of loyal followers. Seen by means of the eyes of circuit emcee, Theophilus George Odell (“Beautiful” George), viewers will be taught the thrilling origin tales and uncover the music of Jimi Hendrix; The Jackson 5; BB King; Ike and Tina Turner; Little Richard; Aretha Franklin; Redd Foxx; Richard Pryor; and others.
Hero’s Journey the Collection is the second collaboration between Lion Forge and Folktellers. The 2 firms are additionally growing and producing an animated collection based mostly on Josef Bastian’s a number of award-winning “Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook” e book collection, which follows a gaggle of teenager storytellers as they cross worlds and dimensions to struggle the forces of darkness.
Lion Forge Leisure not too long ago expanded its manufacturing slate to incorporate live-action in addition to animation and named veteran household leisure govt Stephanie Sperber President and Chief Content material Officer. The corporate develops and produces animated and live-action content material focusing on the children & household and YA audiences.
“We couldn’t be extra excited to work with Lion Forge on this challenge,” mentioned Folktellers Studios Government Producer Stephen Sadler. “We’re about to embark on a journey by means of time, to unearth quite a few tales which have by no means been instructed earlier than. This collection is vibrant mixture of journey, music, and historical past that can interact audiences each younger and previous.”
Steward II mentioned, “At Lion Forge, we pleasure ourselves in telling the tales of the underrepresented, whereas bringing thrilling and numerous leisure to the world. The ‘Hero’s Journey the Collection’ franchise does simply that, resurrecting the lives and music of black artists, who needed to wrestle by means of a really turbulent time in our collective historical past. We’ve got discovered the right accomplice in Folktellers Studios to convey these tales to life.”
Lion Forge Leisure is represented by Activist Artists Administration.
Supply: Lion Forge Leisure
Whitney is a contract author specializing in VFX-driven fantasy movie & TV in addition to preschool animation.
