Good Hero & Mediawan Greenlight Animated Feature ‘Wings Of Freedom: Operation Rebirth’: Laurent Zeitoun & Gregory Ouanhon Detail Unique World-Building Development Process
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Good Hero, the Paris and New York-based production label launched by Laurent Zeitoun and Gregory Ouanhon in 2020, has unveiled its debut film project following the signing of a strategic partnership with European outfit Mediawan earlier this year.Wings of Freedom: Operation Rebirth is an animated feature that Zeitoun is co-writing with Nick Luddington, who recently wrote two episodes of the Netflix animated show Arcane.
The story was inspired by an idea from Jonathan Keasey.Operation Rebirth is the first instalment in a planned Wings of Freedom universe, which will also include a graphic novel that is due to be published next year, with the film arriving circa 2025.The building of worlds is central to the Good Hero process, as the two founders explain below in their first interview since launching the company.Rather than setting out to develop individual pieces of content, the team focuses on developing entire universes which, once fully realized, can become home to multiple media including films, series, comics, podcasts and more.Wings of Freedom, for example, is a futuristic world where humanity has become nearly extinct due to an A.I.
uprising. Here’s the full premise: After humans turn to A.I. to combat their global warming problem, the plan backfires when A.I.
drones identify mankind as the main enemy to earth’s survival. By 2340 an army of drones has taken over the planet and humans are nearly extinct.
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