Fear Is Here For 'Orion And The Dark' In Final Trailer For DreamWorks And Netflix Film

The scare may be over there, but it’s coming with Paul Walter Hauser and Jacob Tremblay

The year in new animated movies is soon to begin. While Paramount+ may boast The Tiger’s Apprentice on February 2, Netflix can boast DreamWorks Animation’s Orion and the Dark on the same day.

Dark, voiced by Paul Walter Hauser, guides the very fearful Orion, whose phobias are numerous and many irrational, around his home city of 1990s Philadelphia in the hopes that he’ll learn there’s nothing to be afraid of in the night, and that much like Todd Mortenson in The Ghost and Molly McGee, he must learn to stop letting fear control one’s life and instead embrace the joys of living it. Orion and the Dark is based on Emma Yarlett’s book and written by Being John Malkovich and Adaptation writer Charlie Kaufman. While that may seem to be a surprising name to see in these parts, remember that Tales of Arcadia was created by Guillermo del Toro. The film is the directorial debut of Trolls World Tour storyboard artist Sean Charmatz.

The actors voicing Orion’s many childhood anxieties have also been revealed. They are Angela Bassett as Dreams, Natasia Demetriou as Sleep, Golda Rosheuvel as Unexplained Noises, Nat Faxon as Insomnia and Aparna Nancherla as Quiet. Narrated by Werner Herzog, the film’s cast also includes Carla Gugino and Matt Dellapina as Orion’s parents, and curiously Colin Hanks as Adult Orion. It will also feature your classic Dark vs. Light battle, with Light voiced by Ike Barinholtz.

Orion and the Dark is produced by Peter McCown and executive produced by DreamWorks veterans Walt Dohrn and Bonnie Arnold. The first trailer was released during Netflix’s Geeked Week but I never got around to writing an article for it and it was still bugging me I hadn’t had anything newer than the announcement. Watch the new trailer below.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter