Within this eighty-five page genesis of The Last Unicorn, the equine heroine encounters a cranky dragon, a chatty butterfly, and an exiled demon with a split personality. Now, alongside Beagle’s wry musings upon his early writing career, is the rediscovered origin story of fantasy’s most famous unicorn. Beagle first imagined his beloved unicorn at the age of twenty-three, five years before she would spring fully-realized into the world. The movie is set to release on Netflix globally in 2024, as announced by Netflix in April 2023.Peter S. When will Thelma The Unicorn be released on Netflix? She is ecstatic when she sees Thelma, and quickly becomes Thelma’s biggest fan.” Per the casting call, “Suzie is a young believer in Unicorns. We do know that casting for the movie occurred throughout the latter half of 2022, with an open casting call issued in September 2022 for the role of Suzie. Who is in the cast for Thelma The Unicorn?Īs of early 2023, no cast members have been officially unveiled for Thelma the Unicorn just yet.

Jessica Killam as an editorial supervisor at Netflix.

Camilo Castro as visual development artist.

Jonathan Souza as 3D character animatorĪmong the people working on the project at Netflix includes:.

Gabriel Fazzioni as 3D character animator.

Zoë Allen-Wickler as fix artist / technical animator.

Stéphane Paccolat as senior look development artist.

Romain Boncens as principal material artist.

Guillaume Arantes as animation supervisor.

Anaïs Mallégol as lead character animator.

To scratch just the surface, here are some of the names we found working on the project in various capacities from Mikros Animation and Netflix: Naturally, a movie like Thelma the Unicorn ultimately requires an army of animators and staffers working on it. Pictured: Jared and Jerusha Hess and Lynn WangĪaron Blabey and Patrick Hughes of Foundation Media Partners are executive producers on the project, with Pam Coats (Mulan, Scoob!) as a producer. So she ditches her horn, scrubs off her sparkles, and returns home, where her best friend is waiting for her with a hug.” After a while, Thelma realizes that she was happier as her ordinary, sparkle-free self. She rises to instant international stardom, but at an unexpected cost. Then in a rare pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma’s wish comes true. “Thelma dreams of being a glamorous unicorn. Per GoodReads, here’s the official synopsis for the book:

“I’m beyond excited that my beautiful phoney Unicorn is going to sparkle her way onto the screen in a big, glittery Netflix film. On the announcement of the movie, Blabey said: Blabey is also known for his book series The Bad Guys (recently adapted by DreamWorks and streaming on Netflix in select regions) and Pig the Pug. The movie is an adaptation of the best-selling Thelma the Unicorn novel by Australian author Aaron Blabey which was first published in 2015 and saw a follow-up, The Return of Thelma the Unicorn, released in 2019.

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