The forthcoming Hello Kitty animated film is introducing its artistic workforce.
New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation introduced Monday that David Derrick Jr. (Moana 2) and John Aoshima (Ultraman: Rising) will direct the movie that beforehand set a theatrical release date of July 28, 2028. Beau Flynn (Moana, Purple Discover) is producing, with Ramsey Naito (The Boss Child) becoming a member of Hiya Kitty to provide as effectively.
Leo Matsuda was connected to direct the mission when the businesses confirmed its launch date late final yr. Though writing credit haven’t but been decided, Jeff Chan is writing the present model of the script, following earlier drafts by Dana Fox, Katie Dippold, Adam Sztykiel, Jenny Jaffe, Lindsey Beer and Tamara Becher-Wilkinson. Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon wrote the screenplay’s remedy.
The movie will mark Hiya Kitty’s Hollywood theatrical debut. Shelby Thomas oversees the Hiya Kitty film for FlynnPictureCo, which has the live-action Moana hitting theaters July 10.
Japanese firm Sanrio first launched the property in 1974, and plans have been within the works for a decade to deliver Hiya Kitty to the massive display. Yuko Shimizu created the flagship character as a British anthropomorphized white cat named Kitty White who wears a crimson bow. Hiya Kitty has spawned a lot of animated sequence and an in depth line of merchandise.
After information first broke again in 2015 that Sanrio was eyeing a movie adaptation, The Hollywood Reporter reported 4 years later that New Line and FlynnPictureCo. had been developing an English-language feature. This marked the primary time that Hiya Kitty and different fashionable characters like Gudetama, My Melody and Little Twin Stars had been licensed to a significant movie studio.
“I am extremely pleased that Hello Kitty and other popular Sanrio characters will be making their Hollywood debut,” Sanrio founder Shintaro Tsuji mentioned in a press release again in 2019. “Hello Kitty has long been a symbol of friendship and we hope this film will only serve to grow that circle of friendship around the world.”
Derrick made his directorial debut with Moana 2 after having labored on the unique 2016 animated characteristic, along with contributing as a narrative artist to such initiatives as Raya and the Final Dragon, Encanto and the 2019 model of The Lion King. Aoshima is a veteran of TV and have animation who made his movie debut because the co-director of Netflix’s Ultraman: Rising after incomes credit for Gravity Falls and Kubo and the Two Strings.
