Annecy: DreamWorks’ Charlie Kaufman-Penned Feature ‘Orion and the Dark’ Coming to Netflix in 2024
thewrap.comCharlie Kaufman is known for his mind-bending script work on projects like “Adaptation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” But his next project will be entirely more genial – an original DreamWorks Animation feature called “Orion and the Dark,” coming to Netflix in 2024.
The announcement was made at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, as part of a larger DreamWorks panel.Based on the book by Emma Yarlett, the project stars Jacob Tremblay as Orion, a scaredy-cat indoor kid (described in the official synopsis as “a ball of adolescent anxiety”) and Paul Walter Hauser as Dark, the living embodiment of the night and the thing Orion is most scared of.
Director Sean Charmatz, a DreamWorks veteran of the “Trolls Holiday Special,” stressed that, even though it’s a DreamWorks movie on Netflix it “has all of the Charlie Kaufman stuff in it.” (Kaufman previously worked on “Kung Fu Panda 2” for the studio.)The footage that they showed was filled with Kaufman-esque no sequiturs, like when Dark shows Orion a documentary about nighttime that is in the style of a Werner Herzog doc, with Herzog actually doing the narration.
And other night characters like Insomnia, Sleep (who we are almost certain was voiced by Natasia Demetriou from “What We Do in the Shadows”), Quiet, Dreams and Unexplained Noises.
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