‘DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow’ Duo Andrew Kasch & Adam Tsekhman Join Forces With Other Angle Pictures On ‘The Gummy Bear’ Movie – AFM

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EXCLUSIVE: When the CW announced in 2022 that it was cancelling DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow after seven seasons, actor-writer Adam Tsekhman, who played Gary Green, and writer-director Andrew Kasch, who was attached as an editor and director, admit it was a blow.

But the pair, who had become friends over the course of their six years on the superhero show, did not rest idle for long as they came together to collaborate on a whacky short film called The Gummy Bear. “In our depression, Andrew had the idea for the short and invited me over, and we did it for nothing,” says Canadian actor Tsekhman.

The actor stars in the psychedelic short as a man who is given an experimental gummy bear as a freebie with his regular cannabis delivery.

One bite sends him on an unexpected mind-blowing trip. Kasch mixes live action with a kaleidoscope of different animation styles for the trip scenes. “He got a bunch of his friends on board who did amazing work,” says Tsekhman, citing stop-motion animator Michael Granberry (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Wendell & Wild) as one of the collaborators. “Everyone was like let’s do this.