EXCLUSIVE: Chris Rock has joined Paul Rudd successful nan sound formed of Goodnight, Lamby, nan live-action-animation hybrid short movie from creator and filmmaker Dustin Yellin.
Produced by Darren Aronofsky and Justin A. Gonçalves, nan movie is debuting adjacent week arsenic portion of nan Cannes Classics lineup astatine nan Cannes Film Festival and features an original opus by Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and shaper Maggie Rogers.
The synopsis reads: “Three-year-old Zia searches for her missing stuffed Lamby done her father’s surreal sculpture-a immense world of oceans, caves, and outer space. Her quest becomes a travel of courage, wonder, and self-discovery.”
Rock plays ‘Copernipus’ alongside Rudd who stars arsenic Papa’ and Zia Copernicus Yellin arsenic ‘Zia’.
Written and directed by Yellin, executive producers are Dylan Golden, Ari Handel, and Nick St Pierre. Production companies see Primordial Soup, Villavicencio Studio, and Google DeepMind.
Yellin is simply a Brooklyn-based creator whose activity — described arsenic “frozen cinema” — spans entity making, painting, animation, and architecture. Goodnight, Lamby marks his directorial debut.
Chris Rock is represented by Untitled Entertainment, WME, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes. Rogers is represented by Mick Management, Sacks & Co., and CAA.