Hailing from a first-look partnership between Apple and Skydance Media, Mayday will be produced by Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger alongside Reynolds, Ashley Fox, Johnny Pariseau and Patrick Gooing for Maximum Effort. Once Reynolds showed interest in April to join the pic, Mayday started gaining serious momentum and while a start date is still undetermined, it seems likely this could be the next thing Reynolds shoots. The feature is based on an original pitch from Goldstein and Daley, who came to Skydance earlier this year with the idea and had been developing prior to Apple’s involvement. Sources have told Deadline the script has been done for some time, well before the WGA Strike started. Ryan Reynolds, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein and Kenneth Branagh.Īpple Original Films and Skydance are continuing to build on their strong ties with another star-studded project as Deadline reports that the two are partnering on the action-adventure tentpole Mayday with Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh starring and Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley directing. Gutiérrez (“The Book of Life”), Seth MacFarlane (“Family Guy”), Glen Keane (“Beauty and the Beast”), Tina Price (“Hercules”), Lorna Cook (“Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron”) and Kevin Smith (“Clerks: The Animated Series”) among others. The documentary features interviews with the great and good of the animation world including Pete Docter (“Monsters, Inc”), John Musker (“The Little Mermaid”), Tony Bancroft (“Mulan”), Jorge R. But, as the film shows, a resurgence of 2D animation suggests there is still hope for the medium. The documentary, which will have its world premiere at Annecy International Animation Film Festival next week, will explore the Disney-led 2D animation boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s which was soon eclipsed by the dawn of computer animation. Variety reports that Ming-Na Wen, who voiced Mulan in Disney’s animated feature of the same name, is set to narrate a new documentary titled “Pencils Vs Pixels.”Ĭo-directed by Bay Dariz (“Hypochondriac”) and Phil Earnest, “Pencils Vs Pixels” is a celebration of 2D hand-drawn animation.
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