EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Animation and Temple Hill have a brand new unique animated film within the works, Superworld, primarily based on the guide collection of the identical identify, created and illustrated by Yarrow and Carrie Cheney.
Superworld is about in an alternate world the place all people has powers, nevertheless, a supervillain has taken over. The one child who lacks particular talents is the one one who’s capable of steal the Tremendous Stone that retains the villain in management – however to try this, he should pull off the harmful heist whereas rallying his hero buddies in a battle in opposition to the villains.
Superworld: Save Noah, on which the Paramount pic relies, was revealed by Random Home Childrenn’s Books in November 2022. Their upcoming second guide within the collection, Superworld: Destructo World, will probably be revealed by the identical label in early 2025.
Brad Butler will oversee the mission for Paramount Animation, I perceive.
Yarrow and Carrie Cheney are a husband-and-wife artistic staff who met in 1992 once they shared an animation cubicle as freshmen at California Institute of the Arts.
Collectively they produced, wrote, and directed the animated brief, The Very First Noel.
Yarrow co-directed the 2016 Illumination/Common animated hit The Secret Lifetime of Pets which grossed over $894M WW and served as manufacturing designer on Despicable Me and its sequel, in addition to Illumination’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. Yarrow was additionally the lead director on Illumination’s The Grinch which minted over $526M.
The Cheneys are repped by UTA.
Paramount’s animation slate beneath numerous labels is ramping up in a giant manner. This previous there was Paramount and Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem which grossed over $170M WW. Their co-production with Spinmaster, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Film opens on Sept. 29. Then there’s Transformers One on July 19, 2024 and an untitled Smurfs film on February 14, 2025 and Paramount and Nickelodeon’s The SpongeBob Film: The Seek for SquarePants on Could 23, 2025.
