Though it’s still early days for the new DC Studios under James Gunn and Peter Safran, I think we can expect the unexpected. Case in point, according to a THR exclusive, a Dynamic Duo feature film from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation chronicling the origin of the first two Robins Dick Grayson and Jason Todd is in the works. Dynamic Duo is the first joint project between DC Studios and the Bill Damaschke-led WBPA.
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The 6th & Idaho movie scripted by Matthew Aldrich is being made by a new animation studio out of New Orleans named Swaybox and that studio’s husband-and-wife creators Arthur Mintz and Theresa Andersson. Mintz will direct this movie, which follows the early days of Dick Grayson and Jason Todd aka the Robins. Calling themselves the Dynamic Duo they’re best friends who share dreams of a better life, but their friendship will be tested by competing visions of a future out of which will come a new Dynamic Duo…
Swaybox uses a technology known as “Momo animation,” which is a cross between CGI animation, practical elements of stop-motion, and live-action real-time performance. The result is long-form storytelling billed as visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive and more human.
DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran, Swaybox Studios’ Andersson and 6th and Idaho’s Reeves are producers on Dynamic Duo. Executive producers include Michael Uslan.
“I have wanted to make a film with Arthur and Swaybox for many years, and for that film to be Dynamic Duo, an incredibly special and unique Batman and Robin story for families, is a dream,” Reeves said.
Mintz, co-founder and co-CEO of Swaybox, is a graduate of Columbia University. He was hired by animation legend Joe Ranft to work in the storyboard department on James and the Giant Peach, and was one of the contributing writers of Moonbot Studios’ Lost Ollie which won multiple Emmys for Netflix. Mintz has directed several award-winning puppet theater productions.
Andersson, Swaybox’s other co-founder and co-CEO, moved to New Orleans from Sweden when she was 18 to pursue a career in music. She became known around the world as a performer and composer while touring her innovative one-woman looping show, a collaboration with Mintz inspired by a one-man puppet show. She has performed on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and has been Mintz’s producing partner since 2009.
