Production was also expected to start in 2022. Chris Kuser and Christi Soper will serve as executive producers. Lana Condor, Laura Dern, and Michael Sheen were circled for the roles of Ruby, her mother, and father, respectively, while Annie Murphy was attached to play the role of Clarica. Paul Tibbitt of SpongeBob SquarePants was announced as the director, with Pam Brady confirmed to write the film. In June 2021, TheGWW reported that a film originally titled Meet the Gillmans was in production at DreamWorks Animation, with casting taking place and an expected release year of 2022. Jane Fonda as the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas, Ruby's grandmother and Flora's mother who ascends Ruby to her throne.Īdditionally, Will Forte, Ramona Young, Echo Kellum, Eduardo Franco and Nicole Byer have been cast in undisclosed roles.Liza Koshy as Margo, a fellow student at Oceanside High.Jaboukie Young-White as Connor, Ruby's skater-boy crush who only seems to admire her for her fractals.Annie Murphy as Chelsea, a snobbish mermaid-turned-human and the new girl at Oceanside High.Toni Collette as Ruby's overprotective mother who forbids her daughter to go on the beach with any would-be friends.Lana Condor as Ruby Gillman, a shy sixteen-year-old teenage kraken who is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High.The generational confrontation comes to a head when a popular mermaid named Chelsea enrolls at Ruby’s school. The Kraken is a race sworn to protect the world's oceans from the vain, power-hungry mermaids by battling for eons. After disobeying her mother's rules, she discovers that she is descended from the warrior Kraken queens and will ascend to the throne as the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas, her grandmother. Ruby struggles to fit in even more though when her mother forbids her from going to the beach. Despite her lofty destiny, she is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High. Sixteen-year-old Kraken girl Ruby Gillman learns she is next in the line of legendary sea krakens.
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken will premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 15, 2022, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on June 30.
The film was inspired by John Hughes films, Easy A (2010), Lady Bird (2017) and Booksmart (2019). Pearl also joined the project as co-director, and Kelly Cooney Cilella signed on as producer. The majority of the voice cast members, along with Condor and Murphy's confirmation, were announced in March 2023, along with DeMicco replacing Tibbitt as director. Paul Tibbitt came on board to direct, with Brady signing on to write the film, and production of the film was expected to start in 2022. It was announced in June 2021 as its original title Meet the Gillmans, with casting taking place to play the role, including Condor, Laura Dern, Michael Sheen, and Murphy, and an expected release year of 2022. The film was first pitched to DreamWorks Animation and had been in the works for several years. In the film, sixteen-year-old Ruby Gillman (Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but when she breaks her mother's (Collette) rule about going on the beach with any would-be friends, Ruby discovers that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas (Fonda). The film features an ensemble voice cast including Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Sam Richardson, Liza Koshy, Will Forte, Colman Domingo, Jaboukie Young-White, Blue Chapman, Eduardo Franco, Ramona Young, Echo Kellum, Nicole Byer, and Jane Fonda. It is directed by Kirk DeMicco and co-directed by Faryn Pearl, from a screenplay written by DeMicco and Pam Brady, and a story by Brady, Brian C. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is an upcoming American computer-animated coming-of-age fantasy action-comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures.
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