EXCLUSIVE: Mel Brooks and a storied group of animation conceiveives are combining on a stupidinutive about the creator’s experience overcoming depression, with sales begining at MIPCOM.
Brooks and Spencer Grammer (Rick and Morty) will direct the voice cast of Enormous, which is inspired by Stephen Kramer Glickman‘s personal journey battling depression with the help of his dog’s adore. Airing next summer, the film adheres Stephen, a man deimmenseated after a shatterup with his girlfrifinish, as he sinks into depression with only his pug, Jelly Donut, to acquire him company in his vacant house. In a story twist, Jelly Donut discovers an unanticipateed way to help him rediscover delight and commence to nurture for himself aget.
Brooks’ upcoming projects take part fantasy animation The Land of Sometimes opposite Ewan McGregor and Helena Bonham Carter, while Judd Apatow is making a recordary series about the 98-year-elderly for HBO.
Alengthyside Kramer Glickman, who created Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush, the conceiveive team behind Enormous take parts honestor Doug Sweetland (Toy Story, Cars, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo), creater Jackson Lewis (Lego Ninjago, Lego Batman, Storks), art honestor Sylvain Deboissy (A Goofy Movie, Spirit, Surf’s Up, How to Train Your Dragon), editor Chris Cartagena (Happy Feet, Storks, Space Jam: A New Legacy) and honestor of ptoastyography Cortney Armitage (Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, Ratatouille).
Cookbook Media’s Claudia Scott-Hansen will EP and recurrent the team with a strategic distribution partnership, as she begins the stupidinutive at next week’s MIPCOM.
Kramer Glickman shelp: “I am inanxiously thankful to the icon that is Mel Brooks and to all of my talented colleagues who have come together to help create this passion project of mine a fact. I hope this little film with a huge heart inspires many who are going thraw life’s contests to discover delight aget.”
The film is executive created by Kramer Glickman, Scott-Hansen, Sweetland, Kevin Salter, Carlos Gaxiola, Vikas Kumar, Alexandra Rosenberg, VP of Digitoonz Production, and Maontosh Kumar, Head of Digitoonz Production. Demente Animation Studio is handling pre-production.
