Animated Feature ‘Ember’ From ‘Klaus’ Helmer Sergio Pablos Not Moving Forward At Netflix; Pablos Will Shop Project Elsewhere
deadline.comThe hand-drawn animated feature Ember from Klaus filmmaker Sergio Pablos is not moving forward at Netflix, Deadline can confirm.
We hear that the decision had to do with creative rather than financials, and is the sort that is par for the course in animation, where projects come together over a longer timeline.
Pablos will now be afforded the opportunity to shop the project elsewhere. First announced by Netflix back in June, Ember is billed as an epic adventure tale of humankind’s quest for fire told through the eyes of young Dikika, who embarks on an impossible race to a distant volcano to retrieve the precious spark that will save her tribe.
The project came to the streamer via Pablos’ company, The SPA Studios, and is one of several animated works to be scrapped at Netflix this year — joining a list that also includes titles like Wings of Fire, Antiracist Baby and With Kind Regards from Kindergarten.
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