Netflix’s ‘My Father’s Dragon’ Animated Movie: Everything We Know So Far

Oscar-nominated studio Cartoon Saloon will quickly be coming to Netflix with a state-of-the-art characteristic movie mission adapting My Father’s Dragon. Emily Horgan, an unbiased media representative walks us via the whole lot we recognize up to now as of June 2022. 

My Father’s Dragon became introduced via way of means of Netflix in an animation pipeline fanfare from November 2018 and at first centered for a 2021 launch (even though extra in this in a second).

There were severa statements from creatives and bosses that describe the movie as “very ambitious”, so let’s overview the whole lot we recognize approximately it up to now.

What’s My Father’s Dragon approximately?

My Father’s Dragon is primarily based totally on an illustrated 1948 children ee-e book, written via way of means of Ruth Stiles Gannett. It is a recipient of the celebrated Newbery Medal which recognizes “outstanding contribution to American literature for children”.

Interestingly extra latest winners have additionally been tailored into kid’s movies for Disney+, The One and Only Ivan and Flora & Ulysses.

Who is making My Father’s Dragon?

Cartoon Saloon is a small Irish animation studio primarily based totally in Kilkenny.  They rose to prominence in 2010 while a movie they produced, The Secret of Kells, suddenly bagged an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Film.

Their music file has been steady ever in view that with each characteristic they’ve produced playing an Academy nod. Wolfwalkers, their maximum latest movie, isn’t anyt any exception and is in rivalry for this year’s awards.  It’s presently to be had on Apple TV+ if you’re inquisitive about checking it out.

What skills is attached?

The movie is directed via way of means of Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey. Twomey additionally directed their preceding movies Song of the Sea, and The Breadwinner, produced via way of means of Angelina Jolie. She became namechecked via way of means of Ted Sarandos in a latest Netflix profits name as one of the best animators withinside the world.

The script is via way of means of Pixar alum Meg LeFauve, who wrote Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur. Her Inside Out colleague, Ronnie Del Carmen, additionally signed an ordinary Netflix deal. Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Picture, who boast paintings with a large number of A-listing Hollywood skills, are worried as manufacturers along Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon.

What is the plot of My Father’s Dragon?

The precis of the radical is:

“A younger boy runs farfar from domestic to rescue an abused infant dragon held captive to function a loose twenty-4 hour seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals residing on Wild Island”

It’s a fantastical tale, set withinside the massive on Wild Island.   Across the ten chapters the principle protagonist, Elmer Elevator, meets an collection of animals of various tendencies which includes a cat, tigers, a gorilla and of course, a dragon.  The look of the dragon is defined withinside the ee-e book as follows:

“He’s were given a protracted tail and yellow and blue stripes.  His horn and eyes and the bottoms of his ft are shiny red, and he has gold-coloured wings.”

Based at the synopsis, the Netflix model feels like it’ll live pretty genuine to all this:

“My Father’s Dragon tells the tale of younger run-away Elmer Elevator, who searches for a captive dragon on Wild Island and unearths a great deal extra than he ought to ever have anticipated.”

Who is withinside the forged for My Father’s Dragon on Netflix?

Casting for the film became showed in early 2022 with an all-famous person forged (which includes masses of acquainted faces to Netflix fans) assembled to voice.

Here’s the rundown of who’s withinside the forged:

Jacob Tremblay

Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things)

Golshifteh Farahani

Dianne Wiest (The Birdcage)

Rita Moreno

Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd)

Judy Greer (thirteen Going on 30)

Alan Cumming

Yara Shahidi

Jackie Earle Haley

Mary Kay Place

Leighton Meester (The Roommate)

Spence Moore II

Adam Brody

Charlyne Yi

Maggie Lincoln

Jack Smith

Whoopi Goldberg (Star Trek)

Ian McShane (Deadwood)

Where is My Father’s Dragon in manufacturing? When will it launch on Netflix?

Despite being introduced via way of means of Netflix in 2018, improvement of the movie via way of means of Cartoon Saloon may be traced lower back as early as 2016.  Key creatives from the Studio noted being “more than one months” into manufacturing in January 2019.

This appears to be very a great deal ongoing primarily based totally on modern recruiting.  Cartoon Saloon are slated to supply a film installment for the pre-college series, Puffin Rock (additionally on Netflix), earlier of this. According to insiders, the movie might now no longer be popping out in its at first scheduled 2021 slot however rather in 2022 which has been sooner or later showed as a part of Netflix’s movie slate in 2022.