distributor has been announced.Ferdinand is a vampire who lives in Lithuania, wears three-piece suits and receives regular visits from an adoptive "grandmother" witch who looks after his Siamese cat when he's off on trips to Paris. Magical Society is a co-producer on this film, alongside Studio Canal, La Cie Cinematographique & Panache Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Story, and RTBF. It has around a dozen animated, live-action, and hybrid projects in development, including a hybrid mini-series based on treasured family book The Little Prince.
In June, Sfar launched the studio Magical Society with veteran French animation producer Aton Soumache ( Playmobil: The Movie). In the eyes of a child, there is no hierarchy between 2d and cgi. Our movie is a love letter to classic animated movies. I can tell you that we had a lot less money than we did with Rabbi’s Cat (12.5 million euros), but we had more time to make it. I don’t hate cg, but you need to do it well. You know, I hate it when European studios do cheap cgi movies. An American studio and Guillermo del Toro were also involved … But we weren’t able to raise enough money to make a cg movie on the level of a Pixar or Dreamworks feature. So, about ten years ago, we started to talk about making a cg-animated movie based on the books. The director described the genesis of the Little Vampire film in a recent interview with Animation Magazine:Ī tv show was made 15 years ago, which was quite funny and creepy, but it didn’t have great animation. He also directed a segment of the animated anthology feature The Prophet. He followed it up with The Rabbi’s Cat, an Annecy-winning animated feature based on his comics of the same name which he co-directed with Antoine Delesvaux. Sfar’s debut feature was Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, a live-action biopic of the titular French singer. Accompanied by his loyal bulldog Fantomate, Little Vampire secretly escapes from the mansion, determined to meet other children…
But his parents are having none of it: the outside world is far too dangerous. His dream? To go to school and make some friends. He’s been ten years old for 300 years now, and it’s been a while since he enjoyed pirate ships and the film club. Little Vampire lives in a haunted house with a jolly band of monsters, but he’s terribly bored.
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