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EXCLUSIVE: Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, nan fraternal filmmaking duo down next-gen animation outfit Spiridellis Bros. Studios, are casting up connected Space Unicorn, their first animated feature.
Space Unicorn follows Astraluna Opal, a wide-eyed misfit unicorn who is nan past spark of joyousness successful each of Unicornopolis, a nine truthful worn down by nan workload of delivering rainbows that it has forgotten really to acquisition happiness itself. When she and her reluctant sidekick upwind up stranded connected a distant planet, they must return connected a villainous techno-tyrant bent connected replacing existent joyousness pinch his ain synthetic, always-on brand: JOYYY®. With nan thief of a punk-rock banana, a thrill-seeking chimp, and a frog successful his underwear, Astraluna discovers that existent happiness isn’t manufactured — it’s shared.
Evan and Gregg Spiridellis will nonstop from a book written pinch Marc Haimes, whose credits see nan Academy Award-nominated Laika pic Kubo and nan Two Strings and nan Emmy-winning Ultraman. Gary Foster (Bedford Park, Sleepless successful Seattle) will nutrient nether his Krasnoff Foster Production banner, pinch Tracie Fiss starring casting.
The task draws inspiration from Parry Gripp’s viral opus of nan aforesaid sanction and comes astir done an exclusive business pinch nan Daytime Emmy-winning musician, giving Spiridellis Bros. Studios world authorities to create characters, stories, and worlds from his afloat catalog into a caller family intermezo beingness called nan Parryverse. Gripp is now a partner astatine nan studio, pinch his euphony group to service arsenic nan instauration for a multi-format franchise spanning integer shorts, television, games, toys, unrecorded events, and more.
The Spiridellis brothers are known for their activity astatine JibJab, an early creator of viral contented founded successful 1999, arsenic good arsenic for creating StoryBots, nan 11-time Emmy-winning world franchise that began connected YouTube and was later acquired by Netflix. Since launching their institution past October, they’ve secured backing from Polaris Founders Capital, Caruso Ventures, Google’s AI Futures Fund, Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, Chris and Crystal Sacca, Tim Ferriss, and Katie Stanton. Additionally, they’ve gone to activity building proprietary and third-party pipelines utilizing AI tools.
“For nan first clip successful history, independent filmmakers tin present animation that stands enarthrosis to enarthrosis pinch what nan biggest studios successful nan world produce,” nan brothers noted successful a connection to Deadline. “That’s not a threat to artists, it’s a gift to them, and we’re proud to beryllium doing it while maintaining an artist-first approach.”
