EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Portman has joined the voice solid for French director Ugo Bienvenu’s upcoming animated characteristic Arco a few boy who makes use of rainbows to journey by time and his adventures as he will get caught within the fallacious period.
Portman can also be producing with Sophie Mas underneath their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers.
Taking its cue from the fantasy premise that rainbows are time machines, the film revolves round 10 yr outdated rainbow-child Arco, who lives within the distant future, 2932.
His maiden journey in his multi-colored go well with doesn’t go to plan. He loses management and veers off track to land in a close to future, 2075, the place Iris, a lady the identical age as Arco, witnesses his fall after which makes it her mission to get him house.
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Arco is the primary characteristic for Bienvenu after quick movies Maman and L’entretien and comedian books. His multi-awarded finest vendor System Choice has been translated in over 10 languages and was launched by Penguin within the US, England, and Canada on the finish of 2023.
Bienvenu, who studied and now teaches at France’s famed Gobelins animation faculty in Paris, has constructed his manufacturing crew from expertise he educated and nurtured there.
Portman is the becoming a member of the English-language voice solid for the movie which is within the means of being finalized.
The French language voice solid will characteristic Alma Jodorowsky (Blue Is The Warmest Color), Swann Arlaud (Anatomy of a Fall), Vincent Macaigne (C’est La Vie, Suspended Time) and Louis Garrel (Little Ladies, The Dreamers) and rapper Oxmo Puccino.
Arco marks the primary characteristic animation for Portman and Mas’ MountainA since its launch in 2020. The corporate made its pageant debut final Cannes with Todd Haynes’ Might December.
Subsequent credit embody the documentary collection Angel Metropolis, concerning the Los Angeles girls’s soccer crew ACFC, which premiered on HBO in Might 2023. Its restricted collection Woman within the Lake, created and directed by Alma Har’el, can be launched on Apple TV+ in summer season of 2024.
“Sophie and I are blown away by the craftsmanship, nuance, and genius of Ugo Bienvenu’s world. We hope Arco will resonate with households all world wide, like The Iron Big or Wall.E have prior to now,” mentioned Portman referring to Brad Chicken’s 1999 Bafta-winning movie and Andrew Stanton’s 2008 Oscar winner.
“The invention of Arco has been a poetic and emotional shock for me. Arco is the non secular little one of Miyazaki and Spielberg and we’re proud to begin once more a brand new animation journey alongside a proficient and passionate manufacturing crew,” mentioned Vincent Maraval, president Goodfellas, the co-parent firm of Gebeka Worldwide.
Goodfellas has a protracted historical past of promoting animated options, having dealt with worldwide distribution on most of Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography starting with Oscar-winning hit Spirited Away in addition to The Little Prince, Crimson Turtle, Summit of the Gods, and The place is Anne Frank.
Gebeka Worldwide was created as a three way partnership between Goodfellas (former Wild Bunch Worldwide) and animation firm Gebeka Movies in 2021, with a give attention to all varieties of animation from stop-motion to 3D.
Additional upcoming titles on its slate embody Liane-Cho Han and Mailys Vallade’s Little Amelie, Guillaume Ivernel’s The Legendaries and Savages by Claude Barras, the Oscar-nominated director My life as a Zucchini, which is able to world premiere as a Particular Screening in Cannes.
