‘Decorado,’ from ‘Unicorn Wars’ Director Alberto Vazquez, Boarded by Le Pacte (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “Decorado,” the awaited next animated feature film from Alberto Vázquez, director of 2015’s “Birdboy: The Forgotten Children” and last year’s “Unicorn Wars,” has been boarded by Le Pacte.
One of France’s most important independent film companies, a distributor in France of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” and Ken Loach’s “I: Daniel Blake” among its biggest foreign hits, Le Pacte, headed by Jean and Alice Labadie, has acquired rights to “Decorado” for distribution in France and international sales. “We picked up ‘Decorado’ because we were in love with ‘Unicorn Wars’ and ‘Decorado is even crazier,” said Jean Labadie. “We love animation and bold projects which are out of boundaries.” The “Decorado” feature was presented at Cartoon Movie in March where its producers met Le Pacte and initiated discussions after Le Pacte’s expressions of enthusiasm for the story and the project.
Vázquez’s follow-up to “Unicorn Wars,” a Gkids U.S. pick-up like “Birdboy,” “Decorado” expands upon the universe of the same-titled short which world premiered to acclaim at the Cannes Festival’s 2016 Directors’ Fortnight.
In the short feature, Arnold, a middle-aged mouse in midst of existential crisis, suffers an ever mounting suspicion that he’s living on a TV set, with even his wife seemingly mouthing commercials for coffee from ACME (a Company that Makes Everything).
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