Genndy Tartakovsky’s adult animated feature film Fixed is now a stray on the distribution streets. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the doggy danglers comedy will no longer be released in theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures and is reverting back to Sony to find a new release partner. A possible new home for the project is Netflix, which has picked up previous SPA features Vivo and Oscar-nominated The Mitchells vs. the Machines.
The news was confirmed by Deadline today and marks the second high-profile animation feature project dumped by the studio since David Zaslav came in as CEO of merged parent co. Warner Bros. Discovery, following the hybrid Looney Tunes pic Coyote vs. Acme.
According to SPA, Fixed is “The story of an average, all-around good dog who is in love with the show dog next door, and what happens when he learns that he is going to get neutered in the morning. What does a dog do with his last night out with his besties?”
The voice cast features Adam DeVine as Bull, the neuteree-to-be, as well as Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Bobby Moynihan, Beck Bennett, River Gallo and Michelle Buteau. Tartakovsky wrote the script with Jon Vitti (The Simpsons, Ice Age), and produced alongside Michelle Murdocca.
Tartakovsky has a history with both Warner and Sony, having risen to prominence with the success of his Cartoon Network shows Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Sym-Bionic Titan, as well as the Adult Swim series Primal and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. For Sony, he helmed the first three blockbuster Hotel Transylvania movies (and wrote the fourth). Fixed is one of two adult-targeted SPA animated features Tartakovsky was announced as attached to in 2018, alongside Black Knight.
[Source: Deadline]
