Animated Family Movie Zombillénium Set at Monster Theme Park
We often say that there’s just not enough accessible new horror being generated for kids, which is why we so appreciated last year’s Goosebumps. And it’s also why we’re super excited about Zombillénium, an upcoming family-friendly animated monster movie that we’ve details on today.
Per Screen Daily, Urban Distribution International has acquired world sales rights to animator and illustrator Arthur de Pins’s 3D horror picture Zombillénium, which is primarily aimed at children. It’s the artist’s first feature-length work after a series of animated shorts.
The story – featuring a gallery of monsters, zombies, vampires, and werewolves — is based on a trio of comic books by de Pins which have sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide and been translated into nine languages.
The series is set against the backdrop of an amusement/terror park in northern France where zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other demons work scaring and thrilling visitors. It is the only place the monsters can live on earth in plain sight of human beings, although no one understands that they are truly monsters and not park employees in disguise.
In the feature all is not well at the park. Attendance figures are down, and the monsters are tired of their day jobs scaring visitors. Something needs to change.
“I first conceived the comics as a great mix between Night of the Living Dead and [TV series] ‘The Office’,” explains de Pins. “Like in Freaks, we will discover the real monsters are not the ones we think. It all started with a question: What if vampires, werewolves, and zombies were living among us today? Would they be working and paying taxes like everyone else?“
The $15.3 million production is lead-produced by Henri Magalon’s Maybe Movies with animation companies 2 Minutes, Dupuis Audiovisuel/Dreamwell on board as co-producers.
Look for Zombillénium in 2017.
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