When directors Scott Christian Sava and Tony Bancroft first premiered their 3D animated feature “Animal Crackers” at Annecy in 2017, the film’s prospects could hardly have looked better following i…
arrived on the scene as a true global power in the animation industry, looking for cartoon content to supplement its kids and family catalog.
“Animal Crackers’” origins are in Sava’s back yard, where he started telling his kids stories about magical crackers which turn people into the represented animal when eaten. That became the basis of a graphic novel about a boy and girl who go to the circus and get a box of magical animal crackers to rescue the animals from the circus, and from there the feature film.
Sava wrote the script with Emmy-nominated screenwriter Dean Lorey , which Bancroft credits as one key to the film’s appeal.
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