{"id":66985,"date":"2023-09-22T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/?p=66985"},"modified":"2023-09-22T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T00:59:08","slug":"paramount-animation-developing-superworld-movie-based-on-yarrow-carrie-cheney-book-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/paramount-animation-developing-superworld-movie-based-on-yarrow-carrie-cheney-book-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Animation Developing Superworld Movie Based On Yarrow & Carrie Cheney Book Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Paramount Animation and Temple Hill have a new original animated movie in the works, Superworld, <\/em>based on the book series of the same name, created and illustrated by Yarrow and Carrie Cheney. <\/p>\n Superworld <\/em>is set in an alternate world where everybody has powers, however, a supervillain has taken over. The one kid who lacks special abilities is the only person who’s able to steal the Super Stone that keeps the villain in control – but to do that, he must pull off the dangerous heist while rallying his hero friends in a war against the villains.<\/p>\n Breaking News<\/span><\/p>\n Development<\/span><\/p>\n Superworld: Save Noah, <\/em>on which the Paramount pic is based, was published by Random House Childrenn’s Books in November 2022. Their upcoming second book in the series, Superworld: Destructo World, <\/em>will be published by the same label in early 2025. <\/p>\n Brad Butler will oversee the project for Paramount Animation, I understand.<\/p>\n Yarrow and Carrie Cheney are a husband-and-wife creative team who met in 1992 when they shared an animation cubicle as freshmen at California Institute of the Arts. <\/p>\n Together they produced, wrote, and directed the animated short, The Very First Noel. <\/em><\/p>\n Yarrow co-directed the 2016 Illumination\/Universal animated hit The Secret Life of Pets <\/em>which grossed over $894M WW and served as production designer on Despicable Me <\/em>and its sequel, as well as Illumination’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. <\/em>Yarrow was also the lead director on Illumination’s The Grinch<\/em> which minted over $526M. <\/p>\n The Cheneys are repped by UTA. <\/p>\n Paramount’s animation slate under various labels is ramping up in a big way. This past there was Paramount and Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem <\/em>which grossed over $170M WW. Their co-production with Spinmaster, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie <\/em>opens on Sept. 29. Then there’s Transformers One <\/em>on July 19, 2024 and an untitled Smurfs <\/em>movie on February 14, 2025 and Paramount and Nickelodeon’s The<\/em> SpongeBob Movie: The Search for SquarePants <\/em>on May 23, 2025.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nRelated Stories<\/h3>\n
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