Netflix announces new feature “The Witch Boy” directed by Minkyu Lee
The latest animated feature film announcement from Netflix is the upcoming musical The Witch Boy. Directed by Minkyu Lee, whose previous work includes the Oscar-nominated, Annie Award-winning Adam and Dog, the film is written by Maria Melnik based on Molly Knox Ostertag’s popular graphic novel series of the same name.
In a secret, magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters, Aster is surprised to discover his emerging and extraordinary witch powers. When a mysterious danger threatens his world, Aster must embark on a journey to uncover the truth behind himself, his powers, and everything that is magical.
With Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, and Ryan Harris attached to produce, The Witch Boy will also feature music by the three-time Grammy-nominated band Haim.
The Witch Boy – Visual development art by Minkyu Lee and Shiyoon Kim. Cr: Netflix © 2021
It has been a life-long dream of mine to create an animated film that pushes the medium forward, both in content and form. The connection between this dream, my experiences, and Aster and Juniper’s story is what draws me to this film every day. I am grateful to be creating this with the wonderful team at Netflix. My hope is that this film, by celebrating queerness and “otherness”, will come to audiences around the world as something truly special.
-Minkyu Lee
The Witch Boy will be joining an ever-growing slate of new and upcoming high-quality animated content on the platform – including Harry Cripps and Clare Knight’s Back to the Outback, Mikey Please and Dan Ojari’s Robin Robin, Sergio Pablos’s Klaus, Nora Twomey’s My Father’s Dragon, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Kris Pearn’s The Willoughbys, Glen Keane’s Over The Moon, Wendy Rogers’s The Magician’s Elephant, Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Henry Selick’s Wendell & Wild as well as Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon and Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom.
The Witch Boy will be produced by Vertigo Entertainment and released by Netflix