Netflix Movie ‘Back To The Outback’ To Star Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin – Deadline

Netflix’s animated comedy movie Back To The Outback will function a voice forged of Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Miranda Tapsell, Angus Imrie, Rachel Home, Keith Urban, Celeste Barber, Wayne Knight, Aislinn Derbez, Diesel Money La Torraca, Lachlan Ross Energy, and Oscar-nominee Jacki Weaver.

The movie is because of launch in fall 2021. The comedy journey marks the directorial debuts of filmmakers Clare Knight (editor on The Lego Film 2: The Second Half and the Kung Fu Panda trilogy) and Harry Cripps. Script comes from Cripps (Penguin Bloom).

Within the film, uninterested in being locked in a reptile home the place people gawk at them like they’re monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot a daring escape from their zoo to the Outback, a spot the place they’ll slot in with out being judged for his or her scales and fangs.

Main the group is Maddie (Isla Fisher), a toxic snake with a coronary heart of gold, who bands along with a confident Thorny Satan lizard Zoe (Miranda Tapsell), a lovelorn furry spider Frank (Man Pearce), and a delicate scorpion Nigel (Angus Imrie). However when their nemesis — Fairly Boy (Tim Minchin), a cute however obnoxious koala — unexpectedly joins their escape, Maddie and the gang haven’t any selection however to take him with them.

Daniela Mazzucato produces, and Weed Highway Footage’ Akiva Goldsman and Greg Lessans, who developed the story with Cripps, are government producers.

Music will come from Rupert Gregson-Williams (Aquaman) and songs might be by Tim Minchin (Broadway’s Matilda). Animation and imagery will come from ReelFX.

Stated director Claire Knight: “I’ve at all times been touched by tales of hidden magnificence. Maddie is each uniquely magnificence and beast, and to get to current that message in comedy is the icing on the cake.”

Added writer-director Harry Cripps: “Rising up in Australia, I spent lots of time within the Blue Mountains which has many several types of snakes and spiders, and I at all times most popular them to the lovable cuddly animals, so it’s such a deal with to make a movie the place the heroes are these toxic however lovely little creatures. This movie is a love letter to Australia’s extremely numerous and distinctive wildlife.”