EXCLUSIVE: Right here’s a very cool mission that simply obtained greenlit at DC Studios and Warner Bros Footage Animation: Dynamic Duo.
It would mark the primary joint mission between DC Studios and the Invoice Damaschke-led WBPA.
The sixth & Idaho film scripted by Matthew Aldrich is being made by a brand new animation studio out of New Orleans named Swaybox and that studio’s husband-and-wife creators Arthur Mintz and Theresa Andersson. Mintz will direct this film, which follows the early days of Dick Grayson and Jason Todd aka the Robins.
Word the storyline right here isn’t linked to Matt Reeves’ Batman and The Penguin canon.
Swaybox makes use of a expertise referred to as “Momo animation,” which is a cross between CGI animation, sensible parts of stop-motion, and live-action real-time efficiency. The result’s long-form storytelling billed as visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive and extra human.
DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran, Swaybox Studios’ Andersson and 6th and Idaho’s Reeves are producers on Dynamic Duo. Govt producers embrace Michael Uslan.
“I’ve wished to make a movie with Arthur and Swaybox for a few years, and for that movie to be Dynamic Duo, an extremely particular and distinctive Batman and Robin story for households, is a dream,” Reeves stated.
Mintz, co-founder and co-CEO of Swaybox, is a graduate of Columbia College. He was employed by animation legend Joe Ranft to work within the storyboard division on James and the Big Peach, and was one of many contributing writers of Moonbot Studios’ Misplaced Ollie which gained a number of Emmys for Netflix. Mintz has directed a number of award-winning puppet theater productions.
Andersson, Swaybox’s different co-founder and co-CEO, moved to New Orleans from Sweden when she was 18 to pursue a profession in music. She turned identified world wide as a performer and composer whereas touring her modern one-woman looping present, a collaboration with Mintz impressed by a one-man puppet present. She has carried out on Late Night time with Conan O’Brien and The Late Late Present with Craig Ferguson, and has been Mintz’s producing accomplice since 2009.
The mission information comes within the wake of DC Studios’ HBO and Max collection The Penguin touchdown the most important four-day viewers for a brand new collection on Max in each area globally since The Final of Us in January 2023. Within the U.S., the collection debut averaged 5.3 million cross-platform U.S. viewers over its weekend debut.
