BRIAN JACQUES' REDWALL
TO BE ADAPTED BY NETFLIX
Such a delight indeed, as Deadline reports,
Netflix is planning to turn
Brian Jacques' popular children's animal warriors adventure books
REDWALL, sold in more than 30 million copies around the world, into an

animated feature film and also a TV series.
Patrick McHale has been set to write the movie which will chronicle the adventures of the heroic animals that
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The character of Martin the Warrior will get his own series too
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inhabit the forest haven of Redwall Abbey. Meanwhile, the character of Martin the Warrior, a wise and ferocious mouse who co-founded Redwall Abbey along with Abbess Germaine, will get his own animated series at the streamer.
UPON THE MAGIC ROADS
SECOND TRAILER IS HERE!
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Konyek Gorbunok is out February 18th
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Speaking of magical animals, check out the gorgeous second trailer for Russian fairy tale adventure
UPON THE MAGIC ROADS (Конек горбунок) which is out in cinemas February 18th following legendary Little Humpbacked Horse. Based on the Slavic folk tales and directed by
Oleg Pogodin, the film tells the story about a fool named Ivan (
Anton Shagin), who has an intelligent and brave friend the Little Humpbacked Horse, with whom it seems that nothing is impossible, but nevertheless, they will face difficult trials when the tzar (
Mikhail Yefremov)
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Anton Shagin takes the role of tzar's stableboy Ivan the Fool
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sends them on numerous impossible adventures in which they will meet the legendary Fire Bird and the icy Snow Queen.
THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE
Ivan
is not a tsarevich, not a hero, not a handsome man, and even his older
brothers consider him a fool. But everything changes when Ivan finds a
friend
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The film was pushed from Autumn to February due to covid
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and faithful assistant - the Little Humpbacked Horse. He may be
small, but he is also smart and courageous. With such a friend, no enemy is
terrible. Well,
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The film had a big budget of almost $20 million
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almost none. With such an assistant, nothing is
impossible. Well, almost nothing. Ivan and the Horse will have to test the strength of their
friendship,
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The movie was directed by Oleg Pogodin
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face an insidious adversary, overcome
incredible trials and meet such love, for which it is worth risking
everything. Well, almost everything.