EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group has signed a first-look deal with London and LA-based Locksmith Animation to develop and produce animated features for worldwide distribution.
Locksmith Animation is an independent producer of high-quality animated features and series which was behind the 20th Century Studios feature, Ron’s Gone Wrong.
That pic was released theatrically and on Disney+ in 2021. The first of Locksmith’s two properties being developed under the new deal, Bad Fairies is a subversive musical comedy set in contemporary London, focusing on a badass gang of fairies who break every rule in the book.
Deborah Frances-White, creator and host of popular podcast The Guilty Feminist, is writing the screenplay. Megan Nicole Dong, creator and director of Netflix’s animated musical series Centaurworld, is attached to direct.
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