The Cartoon Saloon crew have a fame for fashionable, stunning, mythic and emotionally affecting tales, together with The Secret Of Kells, Track Of the Sea and Wolfwalkers. The gang is again with My Father’s Dragon, which has a trailer on-line…

Directed by Academy Award nominee (The Breadwinner) Nora Twomey from a script that Inside Out‘s Meg LeFauve tailored from Ruth Stiles Gannett’s guide, the story follows a younger man named Elmer.

Struggling to manage after a transfer to the town together with his mom, Elmer runs away in the hunt for Wild Island and a younger dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.

Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming and Whoopi Goldberg are among the many stacked voice forged for this one, which has the rigorously crafted hallmarks of a Cartoon Saloon movie.

“Our actors, animators and artists at Cartoon Saloon & Mockingbird Footage have labored collectively to craft this movie, impressed by Ruth Stiles Gannett’s wonderful guide,” says Twomey. “We had been drawn collectively by a need to inform a really particular story of friendship, journey, and true bravery. I fell in love with storytelling as a toddler and Netflix excels at celebrating every kind of tales, by means of completely different kinds and distinct voices. When Netflix got here onboard with this movie, earlier than we even had a script, it was to encourage us to make the perfect movie we presumably might. Our crew created an attractive, animated lens to look by means of and I am unable to wait to share the view with audiences around the globe.”

Whereas we’re a bit unhappy most audiences will not get to see this one on a giant display screen, some London Movie Competition attendees could have that likelihood on the movie’s World Premiere on 8 October. It’s going to then hit Netflix on 11 November.

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