Netflix Animation in the present day shared particulars about 9 animated movies that can debut on the streamer throughout 2023-2024.
Main highlights embody two beforehand unannounced 2024 animated options, Saving Bikini Backside: The Sandy Cheeks Film and In Your Desires. The previous is the newest SpongeBob title, directed by Liza Johnson (The Final of Us, A Sequence of Unlucky Occasions), whereas the latter is an authentic movie directed by Alex Woo (Go! Go! Cory Carson) and co-directed by Erik Benson (author, The Good Dinosaur).
With 9 animated movies popping out over the subsequent two years, Netflix has additional bolstered its place as one of the crucial necessary producers and distributors of characteristic animation. All this after a yr that noticed the corporate win its first animated characteristic Oscar with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and purchase Australian indie animation studio Animal Logic.
Right here what Netflix Animation has deliberate for 2023-2024:
Nimona – Summer season 2023
- This adaptation of ND Stevenson’s in style eponymous graphic novel is Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane from a screenplay by Robert L. Baird. Animation is being dealt with by DNEG Animation and the movie is produced out of the lately launched animation division at Annapurna.
- Synopsis: When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a criminal offense he didn’t commit, the one one who can assist him show his innocence is Nimona — a mischievous teen who occurs to be a shapeshifting creature he’s sworn to destroy.
- Extra particulars right here.
The Monkey King – Summer season 2023
- The Monkey King is directed by Anthony Stacchi (The Boxtrolls), produced by Peilin Chou, and government produced by Stephen Chow. It options an A-list voice forged together with Jimmy O. Yang, Bowen Yang, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Jo Koy, Ron Yuan, Hoon Lee, Stephanie Hsu, Andrew Pang, Andrew Kishino, Jodi Lengthy, James Sie, and BD Wong.
- Synopsis: The Monkey King follows a charismatic Monkey and his magical preventing Stick on an epic quest for victory over 100 demons, an eccentric Dragon King, and Monkey’s biggest foe of all —his personal ego! Alongside the way in which, a younger village woman challenges his self-centered perspective and exhibits him that even the smallest pebble can have a giant impact on the world.
- Extra data right here.
Leo – Fall 2023
- Robert Smigel, Robert Marianetti, and David Wachtenheim direct this Blissful Madison manufacturing. One other star-heavy voice forged right here consists of Adam Sandler, Invoice Burr, Cecily Robust, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Heidi Gardner, Nick Swardson, Nicholas Turturro, Robert Smigel, Jo Koy, and Stephanie Hsu.
- Synopsis: A coming-of-age animated musical comedy concerning the final yr of elementary faculty – as seen by means of the eyes of a category pet. Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been caught in the identical Florida classroom for many years together with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he solely has one yr left to reside, he plans to flee to expertise life on the surface however as an alternative will get caught up within the issues of his anxious college students — together with an impossibly imply substitute trainer. It finally ends up being the strangest however most rewarding bucket listing ever…
- Extra data right here.
Hen Run: Daybreak of the Nugget – Fall 2023
- Sam Fell directs this sequel to Aardman’s 2000 BAFTA-nominated characteristic Hen Run. Voice casting consists of Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson, David Bradley, Jane Horrocks, Romesh Ranganathan, Daniel Mays, Josie Sedgwick-Davies, and Nick Mohammed.
- Synopsis: Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has lastly discovered her dream — a peaceable island sanctuary for the entire flock, removed from the risks of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch just a little woman referred to as Molly, Ginger’s pleased ending appears full. However again on the mainland the entire of chicken-kind faces a brand new and horrible risk. For Ginger and her staff, even when it means placing their very own hard-won freedom in danger — this time, they’re breaking in!
- Extra data right here.
In Your Desires – 2024
- Alex Woo directs with Erik Benson co-directing. Gregg Taylor and Tim Hahn are producing.
- Synopsis: An ideal household? Siblings who get alongside? Yeah… in your desires. This can be a comedy journey about Stevie and her brother Elliot who magically journey into the world of desires with the mission of discovering The Sandman who will grant them their final want — saving their mother and father’ marriage. The children are whole opposites, making them an unlikely duo to navigate the absurdity of their very own unconscious. Alongside their journey, they uncover that so long as they’ve one another, they’ll face something, even their worst nightmare.
Saving Bikini Backside: The Sandy Cheeks Film – 2024
- Liza Johnson directs from a script by Kaz and Tom Stern. The movie’s voice forged is a mixture of sequence regulars and franchise newcomers together with Carolyn Lawrence, Tom Kenny, Wanda Sykes, Clancy Brown, Invoice Fagerbakke, Mr. Lawrence, Rodger Bumpass, Johnny Knoxville, Craig Robinson, Gray DeLisle, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, and Matty Cardarople.
- Synopsis: When Bikini Backside and all its denizens are all of the sudden scooped out of the ocean, Sandy Cheeks and SpongeBob SquarePants journey to Texas to avoid wasting the city from a villainous plot.
That Christmas – 2024
- Simon Otto directs this Locksmith Animation vacation characteristic written by Richard Curtis, who tailored his personal best-selling children’ guide sequence for the movie. Nicole P. Hearon and Adam Tandy produce.
- Synopsis: That Christmas follows a sequence of entwined tales about love and loneliness, household and pals, and Santa Claus making a giant mistake, to not point out an unlimited variety of turkeys!
- Extra data right here.
Thelma the Unicorn – 2024
- Jared Hess and Lynn Wang direct with Pam Coats producing.
- Synopsis: Thelma is a small-time pony who desires of changing into a glamourous music star. In a pink and glitter-filled second of destiny, Thelma is reworked right into a unicorn and immediately rises to world stardom. However this new lifetime of fame comes at a price.
Ultraman – 2024
- The newest from Shannon Tindle (Misplaced Ollie), who co-wrote the script with Marc Haimes. John Aoshima co-directs with Tom Knott and Lisa Poole serving as producers. The movie is produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Industrial Mild and Magic.
- Synopsis: Based mostly on the beloved Japanese character, Ultraman follows baseball celebrity Ken Sato as he returns to his dwelling nation of Japan to choose up the mantle of Earth-defending superhero Ultraman. He quickly finds greater than he bargained for when he’s pressured to boost the offspring of his biggest foe. Ken should go on a heroic journey, balancing parenthood, his estranged father, and the relentless Kaiju Protection Pressure to rise past his ego and uncover what it really means to be Ultraman.
Pictured at high: Saving Bikini Backside: The Sandy Cheeks Film
