Ned's Newt is a American-Canadian live-action/computer-animated science fiction buddy adventure comedy film based on the television series of its same name by Andy Knight and Mike Burgess. The film is directed by Joaquim Dos Santos and written by Rodney Rothman, Jason Latour and James Cameron, from a story by Rashida Jones, Alan Meyerson and Chris Williams. Warner Bros. Pictures acquired it, and the majority of the cast had signed on by August.
Joaquim Dos Santos and Rodney Rothman wanted the film to have a unique style, combining Movie Land Digital Production Services' computer animation pipeline with traditional hand-drawn comic book techniques inspired by the work of the television series of its same name created by the laye Andy Knight and Mike Burgess.
Ned's Newt was scheduled for release on 2020
The Film had set on 2020 and 2027
Plot[]
Cast[]
- John Leguizamo as Newton
- Max Charles as Ned Flemkin
- Rashida Jones as Sharon "Mom" Flemkin
- Brad Bird as Eric "Dad" Flemkin
- Jamie Chung as Miss Bunn
- Hailee Steinfeld as Linda Bliss
- Tenzing Norgay Trainor as Doogle
- Tom Holland as Rusty
- Chris Pratt as The Usual Guy
- Chris Pine as Pet Shop Owner
Production[]
Development[]
On February 3rd, planning for the untitled Ned's Newt film to be released, an live-action hybrid animated adventure comedy feature film based on the television series of its same name by Andy Knight and Mike Burgess, produced by Movie Land Animation Studios with Canada's Nelvana and Corus Entertainment, was originally expected to be released.
In the film originally involved Bob Persichetti as director and Phil Lord as a screenwriter. The film will be the first in a trilogy of theatrical animated films based on the television series of its same name. Persichetti initially pitched the film to Sony Pictures Animation. Although Sony tried to buy the pitch, it fell through. Warner Bros. Pictures announced that they had acquired the rights. However, most of the production team remained unchanged, it was announced that the movie would be released in October.
Filming[]
Principal photography took place from July and ended in Vancouver, Ladysmith, and Vancouver Island on October. Post-production and additional photography began and ended in October in New York, where John Leguizamo shot his scenes.
Visual effects[]
The CGI environment, CGI animation, and visual effects were provided by Moving Picture Company and Movie Land Digital Production Services. The animation services were provided by Snipple Animation Studios. The stereoscopic 3D conversion was done by Legend3D in San Diego, California. Shiyoon Kim has set to design the characters from the original version of Ned's Newt. Unlike the previous films, this film will be computer animated, but will capture the feel of traditional animation similar to The Peanuts Movie, The Lego Movie, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The animation will capture the feel of computer animation similar to The Smurfs, Penguins of Madagascar, Pokémon Detective Pikachu and Frozen II.
Music[]
Henry Jackman, who previously worked with producer Roy Conli on Big Hero 6, signed on to compose the score. Hailee Steinfeld, who has a role ("Linda") in the film, will also appear on the soundtrack.
Release[]
Warner Bros. will release the film in the United States in 2020, it was announced that Movie Land Animation Studios will produce the film while to February 7, 2020 in the United States, to get "a little more time to make Newton just right."
Marketing[]
On the teaser poster was released. The next two days, the teaser trailer was released.
A second trailer revealing the redesigned Newton was released. The trailer received far more positive responses, with many praising Newton's new design. The tone and the humor also received positive reviews. Naka said he felt the new design was "much more Newton-like". Schneider said the redesign took around 5 months and was achieved without stressful overtime. The second trailer received the highest like-to-dislike ratio of any trailer on Google in the last future.
Home media[]
Ned's Newt will be released earlier than April on digital and Movies Anywhere on March 27, 2020 It was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on May 19, 2020.
Reception[]
Box office[]
Ned's Newt has holding up to $404.9 million budget in the United States.
Critics response[]
The Rotten Tomatoes will give the film 87% saying "This design may look like Project 77 from Next Gen, but I'll give it a look."
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