Netflix’s ‘My Father’s Dragon’ Animated Movie: Everything We Know So Far
Oscar-nominated studio Cartoon Saloon will quickly be coming to Netflix with a present day characteristic movie venture adapting My Father’s Dragon. Emily Horgan, an unbiased media representative walks us via the entirety we understand thus far as of August 2022 with the film set to reach on our monitors in November 2022.
My Father’s Dragon turned into introduced through Netflix in an animation pipeline fanfare from November 2018 and in the beginning centered for a 2021 launch (even though extra in this in a second).
There were severa statements from creatives and bosses that describe the movie as “very ambitious”, so let’s overview the entirety we understand approximately it thus far.
What’s My Father’s Dragon approximately?
My Father’s Dragon is primarily based totally on an illustrated 1948 children ee-e book, written through Ruth Stiles Gannett. It is a recipient of the distinguished Newbery Medal which recognizes “prominent contribution to American literature for children”.
Interestingly extra current winners have additionally been tailored into kid’s movies for Disney+, The One and Only Ivan and Flora & Ulysses.
Who is making My Father’s Dragon?
Cartoon Saloon is a small Irish animation studio primarily based totally in Kilkenny. They rose to prominence in 2010 whilst a movie they produced, The Secret of Kells, all at once bagged an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Film.
Their tune report has been steady ever because with each characteristic they’ve produced playing an Academy nod. Wolfwalkers, their maximum current movie, isn’t anyt any exception and is in rivalry for this year’s awards. It’s presently to be had on Apple TV+ if you’re inquisitive about checking it out.
Who is in the back of My Father’s Dragon on Netflix?
The movie is directed through Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey.
Twomey additionally directed their preceding movies Song of the Sea, and The Breadwinner, produced through Angelina Jolie. She turned into namechecked through Ted Sarandos in a current Netflix income name as one of the best animators withinside the world.
The script is through Pixar alum Meg LeFauve, who wrote Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur. Her Inside Out colleague, Ronnie Del Carmen, additionally signed an typical Netflix deal. Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Picture, who boast paintings with a large number of A-listing Hollywood talent, are concerned as manufacturers along Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon.
What is the plot of My Father’s Dragon?
The precis of the unconventional is:
“A younger boy runs farfar from domestic to rescue an abused infant dragon held captive to function a loose twenty-4 hour seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals dwelling on Wild Island”
It’s a fantastical tale, set withinside the massive on Wild Island. Across the ten chapters the principle protagonist, Elmer Elevator, meets an collection of animals of various tendencies along with a cat, tigers, a gorilla and of course, a dragon. The look of the dragon is defined withinside the ee-e book as follows:
“He’s were given an extended tail and yellow and blue stripes. His horn and eyes and the bottoms of his toes are vibrant red, and he has gold-coloured wings.”
Based at the synopsis, the Netflix model appears like it’ll live pretty real to all this:
“My Father’s Dragon tells the tale of younger run-away Elmer Elevator, who searches for a captive dragon on Wild Island and unearths a good deal extra than he may want to ever have anticipated.”
Who is withinside the solid for My Father’s Dragon on Netflix?
Casting for the film turned into showed in early 2022 with an all-supermegacelebrity solid (along with masses of acquainted faces to Netflix fans) assembled to voice.
Here’s the rundown of who’s withinside the solid:
- Jacob Tremblay
- Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things)
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Dianne Wiest (The Birdcage)
- Rita Moreno
- Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd)
- Judy Greer (thirteen Going on 30)
- Alan Cumming
- Yara Shahidi
- Jackie Earle Haley
- Mary Kay Place
- Leighton Meester (The Roommate)
- Spence Moore II
- Adam Brody
- Charlyne Yi
- Maggie Lincoln
- Jack Smith
- Whoopi Goldberg (Star Trek)
- Ian McShane (Deadwood)
Where is My Father’s Dragon in manufacturing? When will it launch on Netflix?
Despite being introduced through Netflix in 2018, improvement of the movie through Cartoon Saloon may be traced again as early as 2016.
Key creatives from the Studio referred to being “multiple months” into manufacturing in January 2019.
This appears to be very a good deal ongoing primarily based totally on present day recruiting.
Cartoon Saloon are slated to supply a film installment for the pre-college series, Puffin Rock (additionally on Netflix), earlier of this. According to insiders, the movie could now no longer be popping out in its in the beginning scheduled 2021 slot however as an alternative in 2022 which has been ultimately showed as a part of Netflix’s movie slate in 2022.
As a part of the Fall 2022 launch schedule, Netflix showed the film could be coming in November 2022. In addition, My Father’s Dragon may also get hold of a constrained theatrical run in pick out theaters in November 2022.
