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EXCLUSIVE: The outfit down deed kids show Octonauts, Wanda-owned Vampire Squid Productions, is launching sci-fi family drama animated series, Miles & Mu.
According to producers, nan original IP, which is launching arsenic a 26 section x 12 minutes first season, is being produced utilizing AI-assisted 3D animation technology.
The synopsis reads: “Set successful ‘Maimai City’, a near-future coastal municipality wherever precocious exertion meets mundane vicinity life, nan bid follows Miles, a five-year-old boy pinch a large imagination, and Mu, an alien scout sent to Earth connected a ngo to conquer nan satellite who crash-lands and finds himself successful request of Miles’s help. The 2 shape an improbable duo, mounting disconnected connected a bid of funny and heartfelt adventures.”
Alan Zhang, main head astatine Wanda Studios, is starring nan imaginative squad for nan show and is directing each 26 episodes, which are presently successful production. The bid is targeting children aged 5–12 and will characteristic episodes “rooted successful real-life stories”. The scheme is to transportation connected nan motto of Octonauts: ‘Explore, Rescue, Protect’.
Terry Chow, Wanda VP and VSP COO, is handling world income and is looking for imaginable co-pro and distribution partners. The purpose is to build nan show into a franchise including merchandising, toys and publishing.
Chow said: “Octonauts showed america that awesome family contented travels. Kids successful China, nan UK, and nan U.S. each link pinch nan aforesaid communicative for nan aforesaid reasons. The Miles Family is built connected that aforesaid belief — a bid that uses sci-fi arsenic its backdrop and family arsenic its heart, told successful a measurement that speaks to audiences everywhere. VSP is dedicated to heartfelt, authentic storytelling, pinch nan extremity of building this caller activity into a modern classic. We look guardant to moving pinch nan champion world partners to bring Miles & Mu to nan world — and into nan hearts of families everywhere.”
As we revealed earlier this year, Chinese giant Wanda Studios completed a woody to buy-out Sony from its $49M liking in Octonauts rights holder Vampire Squid Productions (VSP), giving nan Chinese elephantine afloat ownership of nan franchise.
This followed a long-running ineligible conflict during which Sony sued Wanda for not pursuing done connected an statement to get nan remaining 49% liking successful VSP antecedently held by Sony-owned Silvergate Media.
