No Fats Ego’s Niels Juul has teamed with Sherman Theatrical Leisure to adapt Inkas the Ramferinkas into an animated musical. The movie, which follows a small flying dinosaur, pulls from a decades-long mission from the Sherman Brothers, greatest recognized for his or her musical contributions to a number of Disney classics, together with The Jungle E book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Mary Poppins. The songwriters are additionally recognized for penning probably the most liked (and loathed) tune “It’s a Small World (After All).”
The upcoming movie marks the one musical from the late Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. Earlier than teaming with Disney, the brothers had been targeted on adapting Inkas, which started as a youngsters’s report from 1951, into a movie. Within the mid-2000s, Robert’s son Robbie optioned the rights to the Inkas IP and labored together with his father and uncle to pen a feature-length script.
Robbie Sherman informed Selection, “I grew up with ‘Inkas.’ I knew all of the characters and their songs by coronary heart. I all the time believed that if the remainder of the world had been launched to them, they might fall in love with them too.”
The Sherman Brothers scored the script with 10 songs and labored with a storyboard staff that included veterans of Disney, Warner Brothers and DreamWorks. Sadly, the mission was placed on an indefinite maintain in 2008. Lastly, in 2020, Robbie co-founded Sherman Theatrical Leisure, Ltd. with co-CEOs Bret Goldin and Andrew Kaplan, who’ve teamed with Juul and Sofie Nordstrom to resurrect the wayward movie.
Goldin acknowledged, “It’s not day-after-day you could be part of one thing immortal. Sherman Brothers’ musicals stand the check of time and as songwriters, they’re the Mozarts of the fashionable age.”
“We couldn’t be extra thrilled to be partnering with Niels Juul, Sofie Nordstrom and No Fats Ego,” Kaplan added. “Niels desires to be part of one thing constructive. And that’s actually what we’re all about too.”
Concludes Juul, “It’s arduous to think about my childhood with out the good and fantasy-inducing musical tapestry of the Sherman Brothers and for me, all these many years later to have the ability to assist Robbie and his staff bringing their first musical work to the display is not only an honor, however a proposal that my inside baby couldn’t refuse. The Sherman Brothers are actually timeless, and we stay up for exposing the world to much more of their iconic work.”
A launch date for Inkas the Ramferinkas has but to be introduced.
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