EXCLUSIVE: The in-demand Sarah Snook has boarded Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot’s upcoming stop-motion drama Memoir of a Snail because the lead voice and narrator.
Snook will voice the characteristic animation’s protagonist Grace Puddle, a lonely misfit who hoards decorative snails and is hooked on romance novels.
Paris-based gross sales and manufacturing firm Charades and London-based manufacturing and financing studio Anton, which introduced final Cannes that they had been co-selling the film, have launched a contemporary picture for the manufacturing within the lead as much as the EFM the place they are going to present a brand new promo.
Memoir of a Snail (c) Arenamedia
Information of Snook’s casting comes because the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Succession star units forth on a 14-week run of Oscar Wilde’s The Image Of Dorian Grey at London’s Theatre Royal by which she performs all 26 characters.
Memoir of a Snail marks Snook’s first lead voice position in a characteristic animation.
The stop-motion work is Elliot’s second characteristic after the award-winning animation Mary And Max. The director beforehand gained an Oscar for his 2004 brief Harvey Krumpet.
Set in 1970’s Australia, it follows Grace Puddle’s coming of age journey when her household unit is ripped aside and he or she’s separated from her twin brother.
She finds herself in a spiral of hysteria and melancholy till her life is full of color and hope once more when she strikes up an everlasting friendship with an aged eccentric girl referred to as Pinky.
Additional beforehand introduced members of the worldwide voice solid embody Jacki Weaver (Yellowstone), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Elvis), Dominique Pinon (Cassandre, Bigbug), Magda Szubanski (Kath & Kim, Completely happy Toes), and Eric Bana (The Dry).
The animated characteristic is produced by Arenamedia, with Liz Kearney (Paper Planes) as producer, and Robert Connolly (The Dry) and Robert Patterson as Govt Producers.
The movie is at present in post-production after taking pictures in Melbourne, Australia for an anticipated 2024 launch. Madman Leisure will deal with distribution in Australia and New Zealand.
Memoir of a Snail obtained main manufacturing funding from Display Australia in affiliation with Anton and Charades. It was developed and produced in affiliation with VicScreen and financed with assist from Soundfirm, Thoughts the Hole Finance, the Melbourne Worldwide Movie Pageant Premiere Fund (MIFF) and personal fairness.
