Toei Animation announced on Tuesday a new CGI animated film by original Sonic the Hedgehog character designer Naoto Oshima titled Hypergalactic. Oshima is co-creating the story and characters with Joseph Chou (The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim). David N. Weiss (Shrek 2) is directing the film.
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The cast includes Adam Devine, Elsie Fisher, J.K. Simmons, and Sam Richardson.
The story follows an adventurous teenage girl, played by Fisher, and her baby brother in the not-so-distant future. They liberate the forgotten protector of Earth, Ohkan (played byDevine), with the hope that he can reunite them with their missing parents. The trio discover the meaning of family on their journey.
Toei Animation‘s Yoshi Ikezawa is producing the film. Kōzō Morishita, Katsuhiro Takagi and Tim Kwok are the executive producers. Charades is distributing the film worldwide. It will launch sales at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin in February along with Iwashina Corporation’s founder Kevin Iwashina, who is an advisor to Toei Animation.
Source: Deadline (Melanie Goodfellow)
