Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie
| Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie | |
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| Screenplay by |
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| Directed by |
Raymie Muzquiz Stu Livingston (co-director) |
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| Music by | Jim Lang |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production company(s) |
Snee-Oosh, Inc. Nickelodeon Animation Studio |
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Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie is an upcoming two-hour American animated television film split into two parts and is based on Craig Bartlett's Hey Arnold! TV series. The film will be a sequel to 2002's Hey Arnold!: The Movie and the two-part series finale "The Journal", which also premiered in 2002 on Nickelodeon, as part of the fifth and final season. The movie will serve as the definitive series finale, and will answer all the unanswered questions, including the whereabouts of Arnold's missing parents. The TV movie is projected to premiere on Nickelodeon in November 2017.
The voice cast for the film is made up of 19 actors from the original series, and 11 new cast members to replace former actors who retired, grew up, or died.
In 1998, when Nickelodeon renewed Hey Arnold! for a fourth season, they offered series creator Craig Bartlett a chance to develop two feature-length films based on the series. One as a TV movie or direct-to-video, called Arnold Saves the Neighborhood, and another slated for a theatrical release. Nickelodeon asked Bartlett to do "the biggest idea he could think of" for the theatrical film. After looking at the series, Bartlett decided to make the theatrical feature as a spiritual sequel/follow-up to the episode "Parents Day", and have Arnold try to solve the question of what happened to Miles and Stella, his parents. This became known as Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie. In 2001, executives at Nickelodeon and Paramount decided to give the made-for-TV movie Arnold Saves the Neighborhood a theatrical release instead in 2002, under the title of Hey Arnold!: The Movie to attract the attention of the public. Around this time, Nickelodeon also asked Craig to produce a special one-hour "prequel" episode called "The Journal" that would serve as a lead-in to the second movie. The episode was released as the series finale later on November 11, 2002.
However, Hey Arnold!: The Movie received a poor reception, and grossed $15.2 million worldwide, leading to the cancellation of The Jungle Movie and leaving the cliffhanger of the television series unresolved. Despite this, Nickelodeon still wanted to make The Jungle Movie, desiring to put Bartlett into an exclusive contract where he could only work for them. However, during the period, Bartlett was working on a pilot/TV movie for Cartoon Network, called Party Wagon, so he declined the offer and left the network.
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