from home with artists and actors all over the world. I remember sending Adam Gidwitz off to the airport the Thursday before my kid’s school was closed!”Īs Higgins points out, “Everything outside of the pilot script was written, designed, boarded, recorded, etc. The pandemic shut everything down right after we had our last writers’ room meeting. There are a great number of unsung heroes who managed to pull this off during a worldwide lockdown. “Jamie Whitney really ran the show creatively and was the person that really brought this all to life with his team at Jam Filled. “I was working out of my home in L.A., so we needed a really experienced episodic director in the time zone of where the production took place,” says Otto. The show’s animation was produced at Jam Filled in Toronto under the guidance of Higgins and Audrey Velichka. And our writing team, headed up by Doug Langdale, took Adam’s text and rearranged it into 10 perfectly paced half-hours that feel like you’re on a Brothers Grimm thrill ride!” A Tale Dark & Grimm Baker’s cottage or the Seven Swallows) but the overall narrative is new and complex and funny and epic. It was a really creative challenge to find ways to express that in the language of animation.”Īdds Higgins, “I love how Adam Gidwitz took existing stories and characters that ‘we all know’ and mashed them together and twisted them into something completely original. The way Adam calls out absurdities and warns the reader about the violence that’s about to unfold via the narration and through humor makes his books very accessible and fun to experience.
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“But you felt that pull because they spoke to very deeply rooted inner fears and desires that you don’t know how to deal with as a child. “I remember feeling that there was something very dark, unsettling and often sad about how stories were told in those olden days,” he notes.
Otto says Gidwitz’s books reminded him of the fairy tales he used to read as a kid back in Switzerland. and we set it up at Netflix.” Simon Otto | Bob Higgins Boat Rocker came on board to manage the production and brought in our amazing team at Jam Filled to support the A-plus artists in L.A. “David, Simon and Chris pitched out the book and their vision for this epic hero’s journey of Hansel and Gretel and their desire to walk a very fine line of ‘scare not scar!’ I was hooked. Chris Henderson and the team at Novo Media, led by David Henrie, very quickly brought a really cracking team together along with Adam Gidwitz, Peter de Sève, Richie Chavez and many more, and we started developing a really great pitch for it.”īoat Rocker’s exec VP of kids & family content Bob Higgins was blown away by the entertaining pitch.
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“I loved it, so I immediately started listening to his audio series Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest and my whole family got drawn into it. “I was approached by Chris Henderson at Astro-Nomical, who asked me to give him my thoughts on Adam Gidwitz’s novel in 2019,” he recalls. Industry veteran Simon Otto ( Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia), who was head of character animation on DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, serves as supervising director and executive producer on the series. The highly entertaining 10 x 26-minute show, which is based on Adam Gidwitz’s best-selling books, follows the adventures of Hansel and Gretel as they meet witches, warlocks, dragons and yes, even the devil. 314)***įans of hilarious takes on twisted European fairy tales will be able to enjoy the new animated series A Take Dark & Grimm on Netflix this month. ***This article originally appeared in the November ’21 issue of Animation Magazine (No.
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