Room star Jacob Tremblay and Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo are to voice Cartoon Saloon co-founder Nora Twomey’s upcoming animated feature My Father’s Dragon.
Further English-language voice cast includes Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Mary Kay Place, Leighton Meester, Spence Moore II, Adam Brody, Charlyne Yi, Maggie Lincoln, Jack Smith with Whoopi Goldberg and Ian McShane.
It is Twomey’s first outing as director since 2017 animation The Breadwinner, with a screenplay by Inside Out writer Meg LeFauve.
Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of US outfit Mockingbird Pictures are producing with Paul Young of Ireland-based Cartoon Saloon for Netflix.
My Father’s Dragon is Mockingbird Pictures’ first animated feature, with previous credits including To The Bone, and is Cartoon Saloon’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Wolfwalkers.
The animation follows a young boy named Elmer who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon, after struggling to cope having moved to the city with his mother. It is inspired by the 1948 children’s novel of the same Ruth Stiles Gannett.
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