EXCLUSIVE: After Siren Head sold to Warner Bros. successful a monolithic bidding war, different viral net sensation from Trevor Henderson has recovered a caller home. In a pre-emptive deal, Sony’s Tri-Star Pictures has swooped successful to get nan characteristic movie authorities to Henderson’s Cartoon Cat following. This waste marks nan 2nd characteristic woody for Henderson successful arsenic galore weeks pursuing nan 5-way workplace bidding warfare for his Siren Head animal which landed astatine Warner Bros. pinch Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield co-writing and Duffield directing.
Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Scott Glassgold, and J. Todd Harris, along pinch Thomas Pettinelli and Marc Marcum will beryllium progressive successful producing .
Henderson, a good respected animal designer whose activity has received billions of views connected line, has recovered caller liking from Hollywood successful nan aftermath of Kane Parson’s Backrooms and Markiplier’s Iron Lung. In truth it was Markiplier who was an early booster for Henderson and his Siren Head that helped kickstart Henderson’s rabid following.
Tri-Star is said to beryllium looking to deed nan crushed moving connected nan filmmaker hunt to bring Cartoon Cat to life. The menacing feline is described arsenic an ancient hollow rot that uses nan corporate quality consciousness and memories of aged cartoons arsenic a passageway to manifest into our reality – and wreak convulsive havoc. Nicole Brown and Malcolm Gray of Tri-Star are responsible for wrangling nan evil feline and will oversee its fast- tracked development.
Sony Pictures has a long-standing narration pinch Henderson, arsenic he did conception creation connected Screen Gems’ Tarot, and represents a further finance into Trevor arsenic a creator, and nan broader creator-led space.
Henderson is repped by Verve, Josh Dove and Marios Rush.