![]() ![]() Pearl provided valuable visual development remotely, while producer Gennie Rim (“Dear Basketball”) established the central hub at Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters. So they set up “Over the Moon” at Netflix as the streamer’s first in-house animated feature. I approached Glen after the talk and shared Audrey’s script, and he was deeply moved and connected with it, just as I hoped.” ![]() “I felt like he was telling me a secret message that he should direct ‘Over the Moon.’ It was meant to be in so many ways. “Glen gave a talk that I attended about thinking like a child and his creative process,” said Chou, who shepherded “Over the Moon” as a producer and who is now at Netflix developing another animated feature. It began for Keane when he ran into a previous acquaintance from Disney at the Annecy festival in 2017: Pearl Studio (“Abominable”) creative head Peilin Chou, who attended his master class, and who was searching for someone to direct “Over the Moon,” scripted by the late Audrey Wells (“The Hate U Give”), who passed away in 2018 from cancer. It very quickly happened with Fei Fei, but what surprised me was how much I love this character. “I remember leaving the Paris studio and Tarzan… I felt like I had my arm around him and I knew exactly what he was. “I have fallen in love with the characters that I animate,” Keane said. Why Netflix Shifted Its First-Ever Upfront Event from In-Person to Virtual ![]()
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