Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
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| Directed by | David Soren |
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Mireille Soria Mark Swift |
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Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey |
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| Music by | Theodore Shapiro |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated superhero comedy film based on the children's novel series of the same name by Dav Pilkey. The film is being produced by DreamWorks Animation and Scholastic Entertainment, with the animation by Mikros Image. It is being directed by David Soren, and stars the voices of Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Nick Kroll, and Jordan Peele. The film is scheduled to be released on June 2, 2017 by 20th Century Fox.
An arrogant principal (Ed Helms) gets hypnotized by two elementary school students (Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch) and transforms into a comic book-inspired hero named Captain Underpants.
On October 20, 2011, it was reported that DreamWorks Animation had acquired the rights to make an animated feature film based on the Captain Underpants series. On October 25, 2013, it was reported that Rob Letterman would direct the film, while Nicholas Stoller would write the script. It would be the second film to involve Letterman and Stoller working together, the first being Gulliver's Travels. On January 21, 2014, the cast was announced, with Ed Helms joining as Mr. Krupp/Captain Underpants; Kevin Hart as George Beard; Thomas Middleditch as Harold Hutchins; Nick Kroll as the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants; and Jordan Peele as Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold. On June 12, 2014, the film was scheduled for release on January 13, 2017. Following DreamWorks Animation's reorganization in early 2015, the studio announced that the film will be produced outside of the studio's pipeline at a significantly lower cost. It will instead be animated at Mikros Image in Montreal, Canada, and it will look differently than most of DWA's films. A month later, Deadline reported that Letterman had left the project, and that David Soren, the director of Turbo, was in talks to direct the film.
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