The Redwall novels are ripe with possibility, Jacques created a massive world with a rich mythology comparable to Tolkien or George R. There's no other way around it, this sucks. Currently, I'm not on Redwall." “I think they're still planning on making something, but it might be on the TV side.” “And then I think with all the changes at Netflix that happened, there's uncertainty about what's going on with it. "I wrote a script for the movie and did a lot of beautiful development art with different artists,” he says. (Stay tuned for our full interview all about Pinocchio, later this week.) Netflix also released a bit of concept art from the show, done by artist Pierre Breton, and it looks quite nice.During an interview with Inverse about his work on Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, McHale gave us an update on his movie adaptation of Redwall.
Before we talk about the other project, let’s get you up to speed on what exactly Jacques’ fantasy universe is about: It’s centered around the lives of anthropomorphic animals in the forest of Redwall Abbey, and is absolutely massive in scope - there are 22 novels in the series, though it was cut short by Jacques’ death in 2011 - and it can be best described as “ Watership Down for people who loved Lord of the Rings.” The “event” series will be based around the character Martin the Warrior, a mouse who rose up from slavery and became a hero. The film will be based on the first novel in the series, appropriately titled Redwall, and it’ll be written by Patrick McHale, whom animation nerds and sad people mainly know for the tremendous miniseries he did for Cartoon Network, Over the Garden Wall. Netflix announced earlier on Wednesday that they’d acquired the rights to Brian Jacques’ Redwall series of books, and they’ll be making an animated film and an “event” series to kick it off. And, if you’ve been paying attention over the last few days, you’ve probably noticed the glut of new animated projects that have been recently announced - new seasons of Clone High, a Velma prequel animated series, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur - but, for a certain set of formerly bookish, precocious children, one announcement reigned over them all. Near the beginning of the pandemic, a few in-industry folks made a prediction that seemed kind of surprising, at least on the surface: Studios would begin to invest more heavily in animated content, given the ease of producing it in a pandemic compared to doing on-location film shoots with crews and casts and tons of extras.
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