![]() ![]() Accolades for Joyce’s page and screen efforts have been plentiful, including a 2012 Academy Award for his animated short film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. In the course of his career, Joyce has written more than 50 books and also cofounded the multimedia company Moonbot Studios. It’s certainly not the first of Joyce’s books to wing its way to the big screen, and Joyce has typically played a significant role in the creative process, often working alongside animators. Before the deal was finalized, Fox reclaimed the rights and the film was greenlit in 2009. The project was first titled Leaf Men and though it was initially slated to be released by Fox Animation and directed by Chris Wedge, the property was briefly turned over to Pixar. Plans for a film based on Joyce’s picture book were first announced in 2006. Like many of William Joyce’s projects, Epic has evolved through several incarnations. Mary joins in the Leaf Men’s fight against a treacherous species known as the Boggans (picture a poodle moth with fangs, on a really bad hair day). ![]() When her father disappears, Mary goes looking for him, magically shrinks in size, and enters the Leaf Men’s world, which is ruled by a princess with a wicked set of pipes (Knowles, naturally). Mary Katherine (Amanda Seyfried) lives with her father, a professor and anthropologist of a kind, who studies a legion of forest warriors, the Leaf Men. The film expands significantly on that storyline by restaging the action in a hidden forest land called Moonhaven and introducing a teenage protagonist. The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs is about a small but powerful army of elfin insects that square off against a wicked Spider Queen to protect their garden. Joyce, who teamed with Wedge on Robots (2005), was a producer for the film and contributed to the screenplay. The movie is directed by Chris Wedge (the Ice Age franchise, which has grossed over $700 million domestically) and premieres on May 24. Loosely based on William Joyce’s 1996 picture book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, the new animated movie from Blue Sky Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Animation features the voices of Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, and Beyoncé Knowles. evil unfolds in a miniature, green world populated by insect-like beings: it’s a computer animated 3D adventure that promises to be, well… Epic. ![]()
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