


#DRAGONS ANIMATIONS SERIES#
The drama push as it continues to have a slew of comedy projects in various stages.ĭeadline recently revealed that The Amber Ruffin’s Dewayne Perkins is writing and exec producing its animated version of Clue with Tim Story also exec producing.Įlsewhere, The Simpsons veteran Tim Long is co-writing and showrunner on Bloom County, an animated series based on Berkeley Breathed’s 1980s comic strip. My hope is, within the next year, we’ll be ordering one of those.” We’re going to try to really push the type of animation that we’re known for visually with some of the animated drama development that is starting to come into focus. Thorn said, “On those will probably use a few scripts and visual development and animation tests. Novik, who is repped by Cynthia Manson Literary, attorney Matt Sugarman and APA, will be a consulting producer on the project. Published in 2006, it won the 2007 Compton Crook Award for best novel in the science fiction/fantasy genre by a first-time author. It comes from Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment and is another example of a Fox-owned animated series. He is repped by Verve, Anonymous Content and attorney David Weber. He has plenty of animated experience, having spent five years working directly with John Lasseter at Pixar, where he received sole screenplay credit on Cars 2 and shared credit for the third movie. The series centers primarily on events involving titular dragon Temeraire and his handler, Will Laurence.īen Queen, who created and ran NBC’s A To Z and DC comedy Powerless starring Vanessa Hudgens, will write and exec produce the project. The series, which is in development and has received a script commitment, is set during an alternate-history version of the Napoleonic Wars, in which dragons not only exist but are piloted like skyships and choose their own masters. This project, which comes from Fox Entertainment and MGM’s Orion Television, will be joined by an animated take on His Majesty’s Dragon, a fantasy novel by Naomi Novik, Deadline can reveal. Last year, Deadline revealed that the network was developing an animated series based on Robert C. There’s also a major push into adult animated drama. “We are still talking to them and I think those shows will be on the air along with our new animation, for the next couple of years, but we’re still in conversations right now about those,” he said. Thorn told Deadline that Fox is in renewal discussions on all three shows with Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television Animation. Family Guy returns for its 21st season and Bob’s Burgers is back for its 13th season in September, while The Simpsons, which has handed a two-season renewal in March 2021, runs through at least 2023.
