All Hail King Julien | |
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Genre | |
Voices of | |
Opening theme | "Who Da King" by Blaze N Vill |
Composer(s) | Frederik Wiedmann |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 52 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Mitch Watson Bret Haaland |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) | DreamWorks Animation Television |
Release | |
Original network | Netflix |
Original release | December 19, 2014 – present |
External links | |
Website |
All Hail King Julien is an American computer-animated comedy web television series. It stars characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film Madagascar. It stars the lemur King Julien from the Madagascar franchise and takes place in Madagascar before the events of the first film making it a prequel. It is the second Dreamworks show to be based on the Madagascar franchise.
The series debuted on December 19, 2014 on Netflix when the first five 22-minute episodes were released. Season 2 was released on October 16, 2015. Season 3 was released on June 17, 2016, and season 4 was released on November 11, 2016.
When King Julien XII (also known as Uncle King Julien), a very strict and cowardly ring-tailed lemur who forced the kingdom to be quiet in order to avoid being attacked by fossa (spelled and pronounced as "foosa"), is foretold by Masikura that he will be eaten by the foosa, he hands down his kingship to his nephew King Julien XIII, a selfish, notorious party animal, and leaves him with an entire kingdom of lemurs to lead on his own. While Uncle King Julien is gone the new King Julien gets into various troubles in the company of his advisor Maurice, his head of security Clover, and Mort. All the while, his devious uncle returns and tries to get rid of his nephew to reclaim the throne. Outside of Uncle King Julien and the foosa, King Julien deals with other threats like the mad fanaloka Karl and Clover's twin sister Crimson.
The series was announced in March 2014 as part of an agreement between Netflix and DreamWorks Animation, under which the studio will develop more than 300 hours of exclusive programming for the service. The series is based on the characters from Madagascar, but is a prequel, set prior to the events of the film series.Danny Jacobs, Andy Richter, Kevin Michael Richardson reprised their roles from the previous Madagascar TV series, while Henry Winkler and India de Beaufort joined the cast.