Netflix's second animated feature, rickygervais's The Willoughbys family comedy, is set to debut next spring. Here's what you need to know about the film:
, executive produced and narrated by Ricky Gervais, at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. The family comedy, the streamer's second animated feature, is set to debut next spring.
Director Kris Pearn was on hand to debut the never-before-seen footage from the film, which is adapted from Lois Lowry's 2010 book of the same name. The scenes showed the Willoughby children visiting a candy factory and its elderly owner. “It's Willy Wonka meetsmeets Ronald McDonald,” said Pearn. The kids then hatch a plan to send their parents on a trip to Switzerland, which leaves them under the care of a new nanny .
The children, nanny and factory owner begin to form bonds and create a family unit, but the kids also set out to be reunited with their parents. They harness the rainbow power from the factory and turn it into a “joy-powered zeppelin” to find their parents, who are stranded on a snowy Swiss mountaintop. The scenes are acid-colored brights, which Pearn compared to a storybook style.
“I was attracted to the absurd audacity of the humor" of the story, said Pearn, who added that it's a bit “subversive” and “weird.” After all, the twins in the film are modeled after the classic horror tale During its sprawling Annecy session, Netflix also unveiled images from its other series in development: Malenga Mulendema's
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