Driving to develop animated features and series that reach out to more sophisticated global families and 18-34 young adults after the milestone success of the Academy Award-nominated “I Lost My Bod…
Driving to develop animated features and series that reach out to more sophisticated global families and 18-34 young adults after the milestone success of the Academy Award-nominated “I Lost My Body,” Marc du Pontavice’s French animation studio Xilam Animation has tapped ‘Dustbin Baby’ and ‘’Hetty Feather’ screenwriter Helen Blakeman to write “In the run-up to this year’s online Annecy Festival and MIFA market, Du Pontavice also teased further “The Wolf,” the next feature film at Xilam, to be...
Blakeman will bring her sense of narrative structure and edge to Xilam’s eight half-hour miniseries “Lucy Lost.” Jean-Christophe Dessaint is attached to direct the CGI show with a final 2D rendering. An animated drama period piece, it is based on the bestselling mystery novel “Listen to the Moon” from British children’s laureate Michael Morpurgo, author of “War Horse.”
Inspired by true events, such as the sinking of the Lusitania, an event which helped bring the U.S. into WWI, Morpugo has commented, “Listen to the Moon’s” adaptation “Lucy Lost” reflects the sea-change wrought by the explosive entrance of global platforms into the financing and distribution of animated features and series.
Global streamers have broadened the scope of animation, opening up two new animation audiences for Europe, Pontavice argued: “More sophisticated storytelling for global families”; young adult 18-34s.Adapted from a graphic novel by the author of “Snowpiercer,” Jean Marc Rochette, “The Wolf” turns on a vengeful shepherd chasing a wolf in the mountains, as a storm is gathering.
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