Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) has been a major player when it comes to bringing out movies with comic and animated elements attached to it by some means or the other. Although recently Sony revealed more about their small screen endeavours too. Here are some of them.
Firstly, the company has secured their directorial talent in the name of Genndy Tartakovsky for the third edition of Hotel Transylvania film. Tartakovsky has been the director of the former versions of the same film but decided to depart from the franchisee given some apparent creative differences. But it seems like the Samurai Jack maker is back on-board.
Secondly, with the advent of the Ghostbusters movie, Variety reports that the company is also planning to release an animated series named Ghostbusters: Ecto Force, which will feature a ‘new generation’ of ghost busters and will be set in a far off year 2050. Ivan Reitman, the director of the original Ghostbusters will apparently be ‘shepherding’ the project and it will be hitting screens in 2018. The company will also bring out Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Hotel Transylvania, to the small screen sometime in 2017.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will follow the adventures of Flint and Sam from the original 2009 movie and Teletoon Canada will be producing it in collaboration with SPA. The Hotel Transylvania series will follow the adventures of Dracula’s daughter Mavis and her friends and will air on the Disney Channel.
Thirdly, Bob Persichetti, who is famed for his contributions to animated movies like Puss in the Boots and The Little Prince as the head of story, will be directing the upcoming Spider-Man animated film which boasts a script written by The Lego Movie‘s Phil Lord and Chris Miller and is slated to release sometime in 2018.
Fourthly, SPA confirmed that their upcoming emoji movie would be called Emoji movie: Express Yourself. A whole new line of emojis are being developed to avoid legal issues as they would loosely look like the emojis we see in our smartphones right now.
With all these projects on the line, the near future seems to be exciting for SPA.