What’s black and white and red all over? Emily the Strange!
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Bad Robot are teaming up to bring the beloved character to the big screen in a full-length animated feature.
Bad Robot is producing with Emily’s creator Rob Reger, who is set to executive produce alongside Trevor Duke-Moretz. Pamela Ribon (“Nimona,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” “Moana”), who was nominated for an Academy Award for her animated short film “My Year of Dicks,” is writing the screenplay.
“Both the creative and executive teams we have in place for the movie are incredible. Everyone shows up with a keen perspective along with an understanding and respect for the unique connection Emily the Strange has with our ‘real world.’ Emily celebrates all that is weird and different, which in turn makes the strange and unusual in all of us, feel a little less alone,” said Reger. “Bringing to life Emily’s universe and many mythologies we have created over the years is truly one of Emily’s best nightmares come true.”
Emily and her four black cats have delighted fans for more than three decades. The mischievous and sharp-witted Emily subscribes to the D.I.Y. philosophy of “think for yourself, do it yourself, be yourself,” and encourages her many followers to be all they can’t be, get lost in imagination, and stay strange.
“I’m so excited to be part of the team giving Emily her first feature film! Animation is the perfect medium for her wild and wonderful inventions and adventures, and from the partnership between Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, she’ll truly get to soar,” said Ribon. “I’ve always been drawn to Emily’s risk-taking, genre-bending attitude and style. I mean, brains and bangs? There’s nobody cooler. This one’s going to be so much fun.”
Duke-Moretz said, “After years of dreaming, we are thrilled to have Emily’s world finally come to life with Bad Robot, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Pamela Ribon.”
“Emily is an enduring pop-culture icon of individuality and empowerment, and Pamela Ribon has a singular and iconic voice,” Warner Bros. Pictures Animation president Bill Damaschke said. “What an honor it is for us as Warner Bros. Pictures Animation to partner with Bad Robot, Rob [Reger] and Trevor [Duke-Moretz] in bringing Emily the Strange to the big screen.”
“At Bad Robot, we are looking to push the boundaries of what’s possible in animation. Emily, a character who refuses to be defined by others, is the perfect opportunity to do just that,” said Bad Robot’s SVP of animation John Agbaje. “We’re thrilled to add her world to our feature animation slate. The team assembled has so much passion for Emily the Strange, what she’s represented so far, and what she will mean to future generations.”
The feature film is the next step in the successful multimillion-dollar Emily the Strange universe of characters, books, comics, games, clothing and merchandise. It’s been a long road to bring Emily’s story to the movies: Fox previously set up a film adaptation in 2005, while Universal planned a picture with Chloe Grace Moretz in 2010. Neither project got off the ground.
Pamela Ribon is represented by CAA, Atlas Literary, and Goodman Genow Schenkman
Smelkinson + Christopher, LLP. Cosmic Debris and Rob Reger are represented by Verve and attorney Roger Armstrong, with Emily the Strange licensing by Striker. Trevor Duke-Moretz is represented by Knol Hanly.
Deadline was first to report the news.
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