DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ Trailer Rises from the Depths (Video)

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“Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” has arrived. And we’ve got your first look (you can watch above).The latest original feature from DreamWorks Animation, which is coming off the one-two punch of 2022’s “The Bad Guys” and the Oscar-nominated “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” concerns the title character (voiced by Lana Condor), who is masquerading as a human and attending Oceanside High on land.

Once she discovers her ancestral heritage, thanks to her grandmother (voiced by Jane Fonda), she is able to get in touch with all of her powers – both literal (laser eyes!) and emotional.TheWrap spoke with director Kirk DeMicco, who co-directed “The Croods” with Chris Sanders for DreamWorks Animation, and producer Kelly Cooney Cilella, about where “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” came from and what we can expect when the movie debuts this summer.“This was an original project from DreamWorks, one of our first in a while not based on any existing IP,” Cooney Cilella said about the originas of the movie. “It started as a pitch of this idea of a family of sea monsters that have moved to land and are hiding in plain sight.

Through our proces, developing the movie, we really started to hone in on on Ruby as the main character and telling the story through her eyes, and about her journey of self-discovery – the secret that she’s hiding is actually the thing that makes her special and that once she learns to embrace that side of herself, she can become the hero of her own story.

And we just thought it was such a beautiful message, but told in this really fun, epic, exciting adventure.”For the look of the film, DeMicco turned to production designer Pierre-Olivier Vincent, a DreamWorks Animation vet who started at.