An A-list solid together with Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, and Invoice Nighy will lend their voices to That Christmas, an animated characteristic from Netflix penned by Richard Curtis and directed by Simon Otto (Easy methods to Prepare Your Dragon trilogy).
That Christmas is an adaptation of the youngsters’s ebook sequence (The Empty Stocking, Snow Day, and That Christmas) written by Curtis. The pic additionally marks the directorial debut of animation vet Otto.
Cox voices Santa within the pic. Shaw is Ms. Trapper, Whittaker is Mrs. Williams, and Nighy is Invoice, residents of a captivating seaside city the place issues flip the wrong way up one Christmas. The complete synopsis reads: That Christmas follows a sequence of entwined tales about household and buddies, love and loneliness, and Santa Claus making an enormous mistake, to not point out an infinite variety of turkeys. Additionally starring are Lolly Adefope, Alex Macqueen, Katherine Parkinson, Sindhu Vee, India Brown, Zazie Hayhurst, Sienna Sayer, Jack Wisniewski, Rosie Cavaliero, Paul Kaye, Guz Khan, Andy Nyman, Kuhu Agarwal, Bronte Smith, Freddie Spry, Ava Talbot, and Rhys Darby. The movie will debut on Netflix later this 12 months.
The movie will probably be scored by BAFTA nominated composer John Powell (How To Prepare Your Dragon trilogy, Completely satisfied Toes, Shrek). Locksmith Animation is producing with animation manufacturing from DNEG. Peter Souter has co-written the screenplay with Curtis. Producers are Nicole P. Hearon and Adam Tandy. Government Producers are Mary Coleman, Natalie Fischer, Julie Lockhart, Elisabeth Murdoch, Bonnie Arnold, Lara Breay, Sarah Smith, Rebecca Cobb, Curtis, and Colin Hopkins.
“This has been probably the most wonderful journey, my first animated movie. It’s been particularly thrilling to see the entire world I imagined come to life past my wildest desires – and populated by a dream bunch of actors, their great voices was such wealthy and humorous characters,” mentioned Curtis.
Otto added: “Changing into an animator had been on my Christmas want record ever since I used to be a toddler and watching animated motion pictures was one of many largest Christmas traditions in my household. However by no means may I’ve imagined that sooner or later I might get the prospect to direct a Christmas movie written by the one-and-only Richard Curtis and collaborate with a number of the most iconic voice skills. Watching this solid convey life to those heart-warmingly humorous tales and infuse them with the magic of animation is actually a dream come true. I hope That Christmas turns into a cherished custom for audiences worldwide.”
