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EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has a Retirement Plan. The streamer has added John Kelly’s Oscar-shortlisted animated short movie to its work successful nan UK and crossed Europe. Putting much upwind successful nan film’s sails, Domhnall Gleeson (The Paper), who voices nan film, has officially travel connected arsenic an exec producer.
Retirement Plan had a world premiere astatine nan Galway Film Festival earlier going connected to triumph nan Grand Jury Award and Audience Award successful nan Animated Short Competition astatine SXSW. It besides took nan Best of nan Festival Award astatine Palm Springs International ShortFest.
The mildly comic movie follows Ray (Gleeson), a man navigating nan overload and fatigue of midlife and mentally wheeling done each nan things he dreams of doing upon retirement. Ray sees himself penning poetry, taking up escapade sports, increasing veg and moreover delivering nan cleanable last words to his loved ones arsenic nan movie unfolds. There’s thing of a reality cheque on nan measurement erstwhile he besides says he does not person a pension, but that does not extremity him imagining a richly fulfilling retirement.
Dublin-based filmmaker Kelly co-wrote nan short pinch New York-based writer Tara Lawall. “We weren’t reasoning astir a wider assemblage erstwhile making this film, we conscionable wanted to show a personal, somewhat esoteric communicative that made america laugh, deliberation and consciousness a spot wobbly. To spot it link pinch truthful galore people, and now scope nan Oscar shortlist, is unimaginable.”
Kelly previously told Deadline really he “basically made a panic onslaught into a short film.”
Retirement Plan is produced by Andrew Freedman and Julie Murnaghan. The task is 1 of 15 titles connected nan shortlist for nan Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, which is for films nether 40 minutes.
