Celebrated animator Genndy Tartakovsky — the tooned-up brain behind the adult-comedy movie Fixed (coming to Netflix on August 13), Sony’s Hotel Transylvania franchise, the classic Cartoon Network series Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack as well as the multi-Emmy-winning Adult Swim drama Primal — is returning to AS with a new 2D-animated action-comedy, Heist Safari.
Now in development, the project was pitched to the network’s President, Michael Ouweleen on stage at Annecy Festival last year. At the time, the show was described as a robbery comedy with the “feel of a musical,” which tells the story of three frog brothers who hold up a bank. From Variety in 2024:
The robbers are three brother frogs, control freak James, neurotic Issac, and little George, who thinks he’s brilliant but is actually totally not. Estranged, they meet up at their father’s funeral, where they are informed that they will only inherit his fortune if they pull off a bank heist, stealing the contents of a bank’s vault numbered 88.
Trouble comes when all three cut side deals for help in the form of a Japanese yakuza tiger, a Russian mafia hippo and an Italian gorilla mobster. The police are wildebeests.
Every episode is executed as just one shot and they will not be told in chronological order. The whole has an EDM score.
Tartakovsky was part of the packed panel celebrating Cartoon Network Studios’ 25th anniversary at Annecy this week.
[Sources: Deadline / Variety]
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