Former MGM production president Adam Rosenberg and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” writer-director Rodney Rothman on Tuesday announced the launch of Modern Magic, a new animation studio the slate of which goes beyond the usual family-friendly fare of the genre.
“Spider-Verse” showed the potential for using animation to tell different kinds of stories than have usually been told in the medium, and this new studio will likely have an emphasis on music, inclusion, and fantasy as its tentpoles.The company has 20 features and series in various stages of development.
Among them are an animated feature inspired by the music of Juice Wrld — one of Spotify’s most popular artists of last year — written by “Daily Show” correspondent Jaboukie Young-White.There’s also “Nuevo Rico,” based on Kris Mercado’s SXSW short and set in a psychedelic future version of Puerto Rico, and an untitled “offbeat, subversive live action-comedy” feature that Quinta Brunson
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