Netflix releases first look and teaser trailer for Aardman’s ‘Robin Robin’
Netflix have released the first look and teaser trailer for Aardman‘s upcoming stop-motion musical holiday special Robin Robin, in anticipation of the project’s inclusion among this year’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival‘s Work-In-Progress presentations. The session, which takes place today at 4:30pm UK time, will include a Q+A with directors Dan Ojari and Mikey Please alongside executive producer Sarah Cox, moderated by Aardman director/co-founder Peter Lord.
When her egg fortuitously rolls into a rubbish dump, Robin is raised by a loving family of mice. As she grows up, her differences become more apparent. Robin sets off on the heist to end all heists to prove to her family that she can be a really good mouse – but ends up discovering who she really is.
With a script by Ojari, Please and Sam Morrison, the half-hour special will feature the voice of Bronte Carmichael as the titular Robin alongside Gillian Anderson (Cat), Richard E. Grant (Magpie) and Adeel Akhtar (Dad Mouse). Robin Robin features music and songs by The Bookshop Band and is produced by Helen Argo, whose prior work with Aardman includes the Tate Movie Project and Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels.
Robin Robin (Image courtesy of Netflix)
We’re completely thrilled with the array of talent who have agreed to help us make our vision for Robin Robin a reality. Bronte has incredible warmth in her voice and we feel so fortunate to have her at the heart of the film. When Richard signed up, we had to pinch ourselves. We’d had pictures of Withnail pinned to our development wall throughout the writing and designing of his character and, having now worked with him, remain convinced that if he were to have a spirit animal, it’d be a magpie.
We’ve been fans of Adeel ever since his perfect turns in Four Lions and Utopia and he brought that perfect mix of awkwardness and impeccable timing to Robin Robin. And very few people have the ability to authentically purr like a cat. Fantastically, Gillian is one of those blessed few. Having Gillian purr and snarl at us was one of the most thrilling experiences of our lives thus far.
Robin Robin will debut on Netflix November 27th 2021