Netflix Sets Animated The Witch Boy With Original Music by Haim
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The musical feature based on the graphic novels will be directed by Minkyu Lee, Oscar-nominated helmer of animated short Adam and Dog.
Netflix announced production on
The Witch Boy, an animated musical feature based on the graphic novel series of the same title by Molly Knox Ostertag.
It will be directed by Minkyu Lee from a screenplay by Maria Melnik (
Escape Room), and feature original music from three-time Grammy nominated band Haim. The Witch Boy will be produced by Roy Lee, Miri Yoon and Ryan Harris through Vertigo Entertainment and released by Netflix.
Dear Basketball , which won the late Kobe Bryant an Oscar. HAIM does have experience in the realm of animated movie music they released new song called Feel the Thunder for the film The Croods: A New Age this past November. In other HAIM news, the band broke down their song Summer Girl during the latest episode of the
Haim
The musical feature based on the graphic novels will be directed by Minkyu Lee, Oscar-nominated helmer of animated short Adam and Dog.
Netflix announced production on
The Witch Boy, an animated musical feature based on the graphic novel series of the same title by Molly Knox Ostertag.
It will be directed by Minkyu Lee from a screenplay by Maria Melnik (
Escape Room), and feature original music from three-time Grammy-nominated band Haim.
The Witch Boy will be produced by Roy Lee, Miri Yoon and Ryan Harris through Vertigo Entertainment and released by Netflix.
Set in a magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters,
The story follows orphan Lyra Belacqua and teenager Will Parry, from our world, as they wander through a series of parallel universes to uncover the secrets of a mysterious substance called Dust. It features witches and armoured polar bears as well as dæmons, which are the physical manifestation of a person’s inner-self. In Lyra’s case it’s a companion named Pan that can take the form of any animal, similar to other children’s dæmons, until they take a final form later in life.
Writer Pullman has previously supported a campaign to stop children’s books being labelled ‘for girls’ or ‘for boys’. “I’m against anything, from age-ranging to pinking and blueing, whose effect is to shut the door in the face of children who might enjoy coming in.” He said. “No publisher should announce on the cover of any book the sort of readers the book would prefer. Let the readers decide for themselves.”