Genndy Tartakovsky opens on the long road for the animated comedy A R Netflix fixed: “I was going to a dark place”

After 16 years of development, Genndy TartakovskyWild and vulgid animated comedy and classified R Fixed He is finally landing on Netflix this week.

The film talks about a dog on a frenetic search to have one last Hurray before an inevitable journey to the veterinarian in which he will be crazy. The film won laughter for screenings as Fantasia Festival by Annecy and Montreal. But for Tartakovsky, arriving here was a marathon full of stops, beginnings and moments of real doubt.

Better known for revising the first three Transylvania hotel films and creation of adults -oriented successes such as Samurai Jack AND PrimordialTartakovsky has been chasing this project since 2008. At the time, he launched the idea to the animation of Sony Pictures not as a comedy that neutral for dogs, but as a story about a group of friends. Tartakovsky explained:

“It started with a group of high school friends … we make each other laugh like no one else. I wondered if I could take our dynamic, exaggerate it, caricatured and translate it into animated characters and make a movie about relationships.”

The “sterilization” hook came halfway through him.

“I’m going,” What if one of them is a dog and finds out that he will be castrated in the morning? “And that’s all.

The final film follows Bull, dubbed by Adam DevineThose who learn that it is scheduled for surgery the next morning after too many clashes with the grandmother of its owner. His friends include Idris Elba Like Rocco who speak hard, Fred Arten As an aspiring influencers they take, e Bobby Moynihan As a fortunate fool, and gather to give him a last large evening, with Bull’s Dream Girl Honey (dubbed by Kathryn Hahn) like his final goal.

While Tartakovsky initially imagined Fixed For the big screen, the way to do it was twisted. Studios has launched, accumulated rewrites and the animation for adults was not yet a large market in 2008. Even after Warner Bros. planned a theatrical version for August 2024, the film was abandoned during the reduction of corporate costs.

“The business changed and then they didn’t want to release it … I thought, well, we have a finished film, there is no longer doubt … and then nobody liked it, or rather … they didn’t see it as a company.”

When Netflix initially passed in 2024, things became desolate.

“I was going to a dark place … I start to question you. I did something I don’t think I did? People see it differently from the way I see it?”

The turnaround came in January when Netflix returned to the film.

“My understanding is that John Derderianwho manages the animation of the Netflix series, saw the film, he loved him and pushed him. “

Now, with Fixed In preview of the streamer, Tartakovsky sees him as a test for animated functionality oriented to adults in the United States

“The comedy is difficult … adults are even more difficult because they are more jugglers. If it is successful and opens the doors moreover, whether it is a sequel or something else that is classified R, it would be incredible.”

Despite the struggles, Tartakovsky remains passionate about pushing animation beyond the family formula.

“We have all these series for adults, but the features are practically this Disney, Dreamworks, Pixar, Marvel Model … There are very few different things. We should be different as live action.”

Fixed It is hand designed, not apologetically adult and born from years of persistence, and is finally ready to find its audience. For Tartakovsky, the journey was not only to make a film, but to demonstrate that there is room for a bold and unique animated narrative.

Source: deadline