Spider-Verse studio Sony Pictures Animation is developing a new feature film from Matt Braly, creator of the Emmy- and GLAAD Award-nominated Disney animated series Amphibia. Like his show, the untitled film project will draw on Braly’s own cultural background and personal history to tell the story of a young boy who seeks a cure for his illness through an emotional journey to a world of Thai spirits.
Braly will direct the film from a script by Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar.
The first-time feature director, who has helmed episodes for Baby Shark’s Big Show!, Big City Greens and Gravity Falls (for which he earned an Annie Award), previously worked with SPA as a storyboard artist on Oscar-nominated Netflix feature The Mitchells vs. The Machines.
Braly is represented by Metropolis Talent Agency; Sugar by Fourth Wall Management, UTA, and Goodman, Genow Schenkman.
The untitled fantasy-adventure joins an upcoming slate at the studio which includes Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed and the next Miles Morales chapter, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, as well as projects in development including K-Pop: Demon Hunters for Netflix, Matthew Cherry’s Tut, Spider-Woman and Ghostbusters spin-offs.
[Source: Deadline]
