Gorillaz movie cancelled in Netflix animation purge, says Damon Albarn
nme.comDamon Albarn has confirmed that a feature-length Gorillaz film that was in the works at Netflix, has been cancelled.The frontman first announced the film in October 2020 before confirming the band were working with Netflix on it just over a year later.“I’m at Netflix because we’re making a full-length Gorillaz film with Netflix,” he said at the time. “Yeah, we’re having a writing session in Malibu this afternoon.
It’s really exciting to do that. It’s something we’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. It’s been through so many incarnations…this Gorillaz doing a movie.
Honestly.“But Netflix, I don’t know. I mean, apart from them kind of running this city now, I mean – it’s just extraordinary to see how ubiquitous they are now.
Yeah. They just seem like they’re a good creative team, you know?”But due to a cut back in the streaming platform’s animation division, Albarn has now confirmed that “it will never happen.”In a new interview with the Belgian publication HUMO, he added: “The streaming platform for which we were making the film has withdrawn.
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