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Cartoon
Network has announced the completion of principal photography on
its first original live-action television movie, Re-Animated,
which will combine elements of live-action and animation.
When
we decided to venture into the territory of live-action we knew
it was going to have to be an event like nothing we've ever done
before," said Cartoon Network senior vice president, programming
and development Michael Ouweleen.
"And
even though we are featuring live-action characters, it still had
to be done the Cartoon Network way. Re-Animated has proven to be
that kind of project," Ouweleen added.
The
project, about a 12-year-old boy whose life is turned upside down
after an accident at an amusement park, was announced in March at
a Cartoon Network presentation and is currently in post-production
with a premiere date yet to be determined, informs an official release.
Dominic
Janes (Alex Taggert on ER) stars as 12-year-old Jimmy Roberts, who
while visiting the famous Gollyworld Park, has an accident with
the park trolley that requires an emergency brain transplant. Gollyworld
doctors give him the frozen brain of the famous cartoonist Milt
Appleday (comedy veteran Fred Willard), which enables Jimmy to see
a whole world of cartoon characters who turn his life upside down
wherever he goes.
Re-Animated
is created and written by Adam Pava and Tim McKeon, who were writers
on Cartoon Network's hit series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
and The Life & Times of Juniper Lee. The film is directed
by New York-based filmmaker Bruce Hurwit. The film is a Renegade
Animation, Appleday Pictures, and Cartoon Network production.
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