The Voice Cast For Genndy Tartakovsky's R-Rated Animated Film 'Fixed' Has Been Announced

No neutered performers here, promise. It's traditional 2D!

Legendary animator Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, returns with New Line Cinema to Sony Pictures Animation for his and their first R-rated animated film Fixed. Not only was a first-look image released, but the voice cast was announced.

Fixed stars Bull, played by Adam Devine, is a typical dog who learns he’s about to be neutered the next morning. Realizing what this means for his life, Bull realizes he needs one last adventure with his friend group in the final 24 hours with his balls. It is an adult comedy that celebrates the glories of 2D hand-drawn animation, set to be completed in September. Idris Elba voices Bull’s best friend Rocco, who of course gets a cookie. The cast is rounded out by three Saturday Night Live alums, Bobby Moynihan as Lucky, Fred Armisen as Fetch, and Beck Bennett as Sterling, with River Gallo as Frankie and Michelle Buteau as Molasses. Kathryn Hahn sought depth and dimension as Bull’s love interest Honey, telling the crew "I want to be just like the guys. I don’t want to be the sweet girl in the background who doesn’t have any depth to her. Make her a little raunchier." And in the end, they realized how much life that brought the character.

“I have been doing this for 30 years and when you find someone who knows comedic timing as a voice actor, it’s everything. It makes our job so much easier,” added Tartakovsky.  He also mentions how he likes when voice actors disappear into their performance. In describing the film’s celebration of hand-drawn 2D animation, Tartakovsky also says “It has become a lost art. These days, everything is computer-generated. It was my dream to do this,” a love letter to Bugs Bunny or Tex Avery. Animators were hired they never thought they’d be able to get.

Tartakovsky previously worked with Sony Pictures Animation on the Hotel Transylvania films and a Popeye film that didn’t come to fruition. He co-writes the film with Jon Vitti, who he’s known since high school, taking their own friends, as well as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, as inspiration, especially when building the “camaraderie” between the characters. He discusses a lot more about the film, but we’ll leave it off with his quote about how far he’s able to go “Doing kids television for most of my career, I have a boundary. I will hit it, but I will never cross it. For this movie, everything had to be over that boundary.” Fixed does not have a release date yet.

Source: Variety