Christmas has come early for Apple Original Films as it would reteam with director Peter Baynton for a film adaptation of the youngsters image guide Little Santa by writer and illustrator Jon Agee.
The most recent collaboration follows Baynton touchdown the Academy Award for Apple’s animated brief The Boy the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Little Santa as an animated musical comedy journey will comply with Santa Claus as a baby on an Oz-like trek via the North Pole, assembly and provoking offbeat mates who create Christmas and remind the world to consider, in line with a synopsis from the producers.
Baynton will direct Little Santa the film primarily based on a screenplay by Martin Hynes and can embrace authentic songs from Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie. Wildbrain will do the pre-production and animation for Little Santa, with Julia Pistor producing and Hynes and McKenzie sharing within the govt producer credit.
Moreover Little Santa, Apple Authentic Movies additionally has different animated fare upcoming, together with Snoopy Unleashed, the studio’s first original Peanuts film from Wildbrain and Peanuts Worldwide. Like Little Santa, the computer-generated animated Snoopy Unleashed movie will comply with Snoopy and Charlie Brown as they and the remainder of the Peanuts gang as they go on an epic journey. Apple additionally holds the rights to the late Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts catalog.
Current releases from Apple embrace F1: The Movie, The Misplaced Bus rescue drama from director Paul Greengrass, Highest 2 Lowest, which reunited Spike Lee with Denzel Washington, and The Gorge, starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Pleasure.
