{"id":1530,"date":"2020-07-23T22:57:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2020-07-23T23:20:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T05:20:28","slug":"new-projects-netflix-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"NEW PROJECTS: NETFLIX AND BEYOND"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>I\u2019m finally able to share exciting news on not one, but two projects! This is a crazy business where many things I work on for a long time I have to keep secret. Well now two big secrets are out! While\u00a0Deadline Hollywood<\/a> broke the news yesterday, I can give you a lot more details here.<\/p>\n

FEARLESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Fearless<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>My recently-completed animated feature, Fearless<\/a><\/em> will be premiering on Netflix, August 14. This is the project I moved my whole family to Montreal for, and it was quite a life experience. The film is about a teenage gamer who has never gotten off the couch, until he mistakenly opens a portal that brings the game characters into his backyard. He has to protect super-powered babies from a super villain who’s chasing them. It\u2019s got a really cool look and some big fun superhero\/sci-fi action sequences. It\u2019s really amazing to see it out in the world now because, to be honest, it was one of the most challenging productions I\u2019ve ever been on. The budget and script changed drastically several times throughout production, and the final film ended up very different\u00a0from the film I\u00a0originally set out\u00a0to make. But is it fun? Yes!<\/p>\n

The voice cast includes Susan Sarandon, Yara Shahidi, Miles Robbins, and rapper Jadakiss. Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation produced the soundtrack, which is also very cool. The characters were designed by legendary artist Peter DeSeve<\/a> (Ice Age, A Bug\u2019s Life, Mulan<\/em>) and my production designer was Kevin Conran, The guy who basically designed every single thing in Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow<\/a><\/em>, a favorite film of mine. Cinesite animation was the studio that created everything from start to finish, and were a pleasure to work with. If you love babies throwing tanks, angry floating robots and goofy alien sidekicks, this is a good one for you!<\/p>\n

\"SC<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Every project is a growing experience that sets you up for your next project. Every film teaches you something about yourself as a creator and what you want to do better next time. That\u2019s why, as difficult as this last film was to finish, it makes my second announcement all the sweeter\u2026<\/p>\n

DOOMSTAR JANITORIAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

My next film is a real labor of love, something I\u2019ve wanted to do for a long, long time. It\u2019s a sci-fi comedy that is basically a love letter to 80\u2019s science-fiction and touchstone comedies like Ghostbusters<\/em>, and Galaxy Quest<\/em>. It\u2019s a movie about the kind of guys that never get their moment; blue-collar workers who are usually invisible in a Star Wars<\/em> kind of world. They aren\u2019t bounty hunters or freedom fighters\u2026 they\u2019re janitors. This is Doomstar Janitorial<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Doomstar<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The story is about Gabe, who mops the floors and changes the lightbulbs of a very powerful space station. When he finds out its planet-killing weapon\u00a0is targeting his own home planet, he rallies the rest of his janitorial crew to sabotage the whole place. I\u2019ve been working on the script for years. It was originally planned as a live action project, but when I realized I had a better chance of getting it made as an animated movie, I added a lot more funny robots and aliens and animation-friendly jokes. It\u2019s truly one of the funniest things I\u2019ve written and I can\u2019t wait to get started.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a fantastic team behind me on this one.\u00a0Executive Producers are John Williams of Vanguard Animation\u00a0(Shrek),\u00a0<\/em>Tom Jacomb of DNEG Animation (Puss In Boots, Rise Of The Guardians<\/em>) and Peter Seaman (Who wrote a little Academy Award-winning film called Who Framed Roger Rabbit<\/em>). Characters are already being designed by another legendary artist, Carter Goodrich<\/a> (Despicable Me, Finding Nemo, Coco<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The poster displayed\u00a0above is based on\u00a0some “work in progress” versions of the characters, but they\u2019re close. \"Screen<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Even the poster itself is a realization of a long-time dream of mine: to create a Drew Struzan<\/strong>-style movie poster for the film. If you don\u2019t know who\u00a0Drew Struzan is, look him up!<\/a>\u00a0He\u2019s basically the master of 80s and 90s movie posters. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones<\/em>, he\u2019s done them all. The artists at DNEG worked very hard to refine the brushstroke style of Struzan, and it\u2019s pretty cool to see.<\/p>\n

The next big hurdle is locking in the remaining financing and moving into the all-important greenlight for production. We are also currently casting, out to some pretty big names \u2014 names I will be very excited to share if they say yes! Bottom line, I want to fill this cast with the funniest people I can and really let them play when they get on the mic. Spontaneous comedy from actors is hard to capture in animation, especially improv and\u00a0funny moments between\u00a0two people that you usually get on a live action set. But I\u2019m going to try\u2026 This film\u00a0will center on the performances\u00a0first and build from whatever crazy alchemy we get in the studio.<\/p>\n

So tune in to Netflix on August 14 and enjoy Fearless<\/em>, and I\u2019ll give as many updates as I can about Doomstar<\/em>, right here on this blog. It will be my joy to share as much as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m finally able to share exciting news on not one, but two projects! This is a crazy business where many things I work on for a long time I have to keep secret. Well now two big secrets are out! While\u00a0Deadline Hollywood broke the news yesterday, I can give you a lot more details here. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}