Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Locksmith Animation Give 'Bad Fairies' Its Music And Release Date
The creators of 'Six' team up with The Machine for the animated musical coming in 2027
It was last June that Locksmith Animation, the studio behind Ron’s Gone Wrong at 20th Century Studios, had expanded their partnership with the newly-branded Warner Bros. Pictures Animation to develop and produce animated features for worldwide distribution from their production deal signed in 2019. One of the films revealed to be in development, the animated musical Bad Fairies, is headed in a very positive direction.
The studio has set Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, co-creator of the musical Six, which won a Tony for Best Original Score, as the songwriters for the film, while Isabella Summers, best known as The Machine (as in Florence & The Machine) will produce the songs and write the score. A release date for Bad Fairies has also been given: July 23, 2027. Production is now underway in London with DNEG Animation as the digital partners. The film is set in modern London and about a kickass gang of rulebreaking fairies with attitude. Deborah Frances-White is writing the screenplay. Megan Nicole Dong, who created the Netflix animated series Centaurworld, is directing. She tweeted “Directing this! And so excited to be working with this absolutely incredible team of artists and musicians” in quoting Deadline’s coverage. Quoting the same coverage Frances-White tweeted “Very honoured & ludicrously excited to be the screenwriter on this glorious project with these incredible talents including our genius director.” Ultraman Rising director Shannon Tindle said “I haven't been this excited for a musical since, well, it’s been a minute.” Marlow and Moss’s next musical Why Am I So Single opens this fall.
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“Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation are excited to welcome this extraordinary dream team of musical talents, Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss and Isabella Summers into our Bad Fairies family,” said Bill Damaschke, the President of Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Mary Coleman, Chief Creative Officer of Locksmith Animation in a joint statement. “Together they will bring vibrant and unforgettable dimension to the story, and we cannot wait to share it with audiences around the world in 2027.”
The film’s creative leads include Carolyn Soper whose experience includes Bolt and Tangled as the producer, with editor Sim Evan-Jones, Nimona cinematographer James C.J. Williams, character designer Uwe Heidschötter, and heads of story Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt, creators of Netflix Nicktoon Pinky Malinky.
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Sources: Deadline, Megan Dong, Deborah Frances-White
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