EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Carlos López Estrada (Raya and the Final Dragon, Blindspotting) and his firm Antigravity Academy are growing a characteristic movie and an in-depth documentary undertaking primarily based on The Good Whale, a brand new podcast from The New York Occasions and Serial Productions.
The Good Whale chronicles the true story of the celeb orca Keiko, the star of the ’90s hit movie Free Willy.
López Estrada— whose third directorial undertaking, Raya and the Final Dragon acquired an Academy Award nomination for Finest Animated Function— launched the podcast idea to the New York Occasions and Serial three years in the past, deriving from his longtime fascination with the well-known orca he idolized as a baby in Mexico Metropolis. After changing into a star on Free Willy, Keiko was the topic of a world marketing campaign to launch him again into the wild.
López Estrada noticed how Keiko’s story captured the difficult intersection of the human and animal worlds by the lifetime of a whale who wanted individuals however grew to become entangled of their agendas, in the end questioning who actually wanted saving.
The enlargement of the podcast right into a characteristic movie and doc arrives because the fifth episode of the podcast was launched accompanied by a music video (beneath) directed by López Estrada and Anna Moskowitz. It options an unique tune by Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriters Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and puppets by Michelle Zamora.
Carlos López Estrada is represented by UTA, M88, and Ziffren Brittenham.
The New York Occasions and Serial Productions are represented by CAA.
