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On the morning of February 10th, Netflix casually tweeted an announcement that caused an entire generation’s inner child to levitate out of bed and cry “Eulalia!” with one voice: the streaming platform had acquired the rights to the entirety of Brian Jacques’ beloved Redwall series. Plans were announced for a feature film and an “event series” to start, with no information yet on casting, timeline, or other details.
Jacques’ medieval fantasy adventure series, a proto-cottagecore masterpiece with a colorful cast of anthropomorphic wildlife, was written for the age range we now refer to as middle grade and spanned 22 books, from the 1986 publication of
We’re in a golden age for animated features. The films reaching our screens represent a growing range of subject matter, genres, visual styles, and budgets. The field is becoming more international the Oscar shortlists attest to that. The sheer number of projects being greenlit, made, and released keeps us busy here at Cartoon Brew.
To better keep track of the scene, we’ll be publishing regular round-ups of animated feature projects that have recently been announced. Here is our first. The films below are in their early stages, so no release dates have yet been confirmed.
This Was Our Pact
Netflix is making a Redwall movie, and The Verge staff is very excited
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Earlier this week, Netflix dropped a surprise announcement that it’s adapting author Brian Jacques’ iconic
Redwall books into a new animated movie and TV franchise. Based on the 22-book children’s series that was published from 1986 through 2011, the books span generations of sword-fighting anthropomorphic mice, rabbits, badgers, and other woodland creatures living at the titular Redwall Abbey.
While the show was previously made into a TV series back in the late ‘90s, it’s never been adapted with the scale (or presumably, the budget) of a Netflix feature film. Many of us here at