EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Portman has joined the voice solid for French director Ugo Bienvenu’s upcoming animated characteristic Arco a couple of boy who makes use of rainbows to journey by time and his adventures as he will get caught within the fallacious period.
Portman can be producing with Sophie Mas underneath their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers.
Taking its cue from the fantasy premise that rainbows are time machines, the film revolves round 10 12 months outdated rainbow-child Arco, who lives within the distant future, 2932.
His maiden journey in his multi-colored swimsuit doesn’t go to plan. He loses management and veers astray to land in a close to future, 2075, the place Iris, a woman the identical age as Arco, witnesses his fall after which makes it her mission to get him dwelling.
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Arco is the primary characteristic for Bienvenu after brief movies Maman and L’entretien and comedian books. His multi-awarded greatest vendor System Desire has been translated in over 10 languages and was launched by Penguin within the US, England, and Canada on the finish of 2023.
Bienvenu, who studied and now teaches at France’s famed Gobelins animation college in Paris, has constructed his manufacturing workforce from expertise he skilled and nurtured there.
Portman is the becoming a member of the English-language voice solid for the movie which is within the strategy of being finalized.
The French language voice solid will characteristic Alma Jodorowsky (Blue Is The Warmest Color), Swann Arlaud (Anatomy of a Fall), Vincent Macaigne (C’est La Vie, Suspended Time) and Louis Garrel (Little Girls, The Dreamers) and rapper Oxmo Puccino.
Arco marks the primary characteristic animation for Portman and Mas’ MountainA since its launch in 2020. The corporate made its competition debut final Cannes with Todd Haynes’ Could December.
Subsequent credit embody the documentary sequence Angel Metropolis, in regards to the Los Angeles ladies’s soccer workforce ACFC, which premiered on HBO in Could 2023. Its restricted sequence Woman within the Lake, created and directed by Alma Har’el, can be launched on Apple TV+ in summer season of 2024.
“Sophie and I are blown away by the craftsmanship, nuance, and genius of Ugo Bienvenu’s world. We hope Arco will resonate with households all world wide, like The Iron Big or Wall.E have up to now,” stated Portman referring to Brad Chook’s 1999 Bafta-winning movie and Andrew Stanton’s 2008 Oscar winner.
“The invention of Arco has been a poetic and emotional shock for me. Arco is the religious youngster of Miyazaki and Spielberg and we’re proud to start out once more a brand new animation journey alongside a proficient and passionate manufacturing workforce,” stated Vincent Maraval, president Goodfellas, the co-parent firm of Gebeka Worldwide.
Goodfellas has a protracted historical past of promoting animated options, having dealt with worldwide distribution on most of Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography starting with Oscar-winning hit Spirited Away in addition to The Little Prince, Crimson Turtle, Summit of the Gods, and The place is Anne Frank.
Gebeka Worldwide was created as a three way partnership between Goodfellas (former Wild Bunch Worldwide) and animation firm Gebeka Movies in 2021, with a give attention to all varieties of animation from stop-motion to 3D.
Additional upcoming titles on its slate embody Liane-Cho Han and Mailys Vallade’s Little Amelie, Guillaume Ivernel’s The Legendaries and Savages by Claude Barras, the Oscar-nominated director My life as a Zucchini, which is able to world premiere as a Particular Screening in Cannes.