Oscar-winning animator developing Lovecraft biographical film

[Michael]

Oscar-winner Chris Landreth to tackle animated biopic on Lovecraft
By Cassandra Szklarski

TORONTO — Oscar-winning animator Chris Landreth says he's working on his first full-length feature amid a whirlwind of activity that includes premiering his newest short film, "The Spine," at France's Annecy International Animated Film Festival this week.

"It's a film called 'Lovecraft,' based on the writer H.P. Lovecraft," said Landreth, referring to the master horror fiction writer who died in 1937. "We're doing a fictionalized animated biography picture of him."

"We have a script and we are working towards seeing if we can make this work."

The Toronto-based Landreth says the ambitious movie project stems from his Academy Award win five years ago, when "Ryan," a documentary about the late National Film Board animator Ryan Larkin, took the prize for best animated short.

The global recognition that followed included some attention from Hollywood studios, he says, and although the discussions were relatively shortlived, they got the ball rolling on a couple of ideas he's still developing.

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I have to ask this question: if the animated movie is released and then released again say ten years later and touched up with new technology (ala "Star Wars"), does that mean they would employ the services of a re-animator?

Okay ... you may now shoot spitballs at me.

[Michael]

Spine-tingling short
THE SPINE IS A NEW ANIMATED FLICK FROM OSCAR WINNING TORONTO DIRECTOR
NORMAN WILNER

As you’re reading this, Chris Landreth is making his way back from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where his new short The Spine made its world premiere earlier this week.

Next stop for both the Toronto-based animator and his film: the Cumberland Cinemas, where The Spine makes its Canadian bow in the official competition at the Worldwide Short Film Festival on Wednesday (June 17).

The Spine finds Landreth expanding upon the same idiosyncratic digital animation style he pioneered in his Oscar-winning short Ryan to tell the fictional story of Dan and Mary (voiced by Gordon Pinsent and Alberta Watson), a long-married couple who’ve reached the end of their dysfunctional tether.

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