Marion Cotillard-Daisy Ridley’s Animated Feature ‘The Inventor’ Set to Travel Around the World (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent“The Inventor,” the animated family feature by “Ratatouille” scribe Jim Capobianco whose all-star voice cast is led by Marion Cotillard, Daisy Ridley, Stephen Fry and Matt Berry, has been sold by MK2 Films to a flurry of territories.
The stop-motion film, which charts the life of Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci, has pre-sold to a large part of the world, with deals in France (KMBO), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Hong Kong & Taiwan (Muse), the Philippines (Falcon), Former Yougoslavia (Karantanija).
MK2 Films has already sold to the U.K., German-speaking Europe, Greece, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, Latin America, the Middle East, Indonesia.
Further deals are in negotiation. Penned and directed by Capobianco, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “Ratatouille,” “The Inventor” tells the story of Leonardo da Vinci (Fry), whose free-thinking ways clashed with Pope Leo X (Berry), who sent him far from Rome to the French court where he could experiment freely – inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and study the human body.
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