EXCLUSIVE: King Options Syndicate has launched improvement on a brand new animated function impressed by the interactive kids’s caricature, Slylock Fox — having renewed its illustration settlement for the property, beforehand referred to as Slylock Fox and Comics for Youngsters.
The movie in improvement will comply with the Sherlock-Holmes-esque detective Slylock Fox and his devoted sidekick, Max Mouse, as they match wits towards a forged of eccentric villains. Evan Daugherty — author of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Divergent and Snow White and the Huntsman — is on board to put in writing and produce, with the design and animation studio Chromosphere having come aboard for artwork course. King Options’ President C.J. Kettler will function the mission’s govt producer.
Created by Bob Weber Jr. and revealed by King Options Syndicate, the Slylock caricature has since 1987 allowed children to comply with Slylock Fox, Mad Mouse and different pleasant characters, instructing younger readers about attention-grabbing subjects and inspiring them to make use of info, logic, consideration to visible element, lateral pondering and different cognitive pondering expertise to unravel enjoyable, puzzling mysteries.
Slylock Fox is considered one of a number of properties King Options is at present creating for tv and movie, because it seems to each adapt its caricature IP for in the present day’s tradition and construct out the portfolio of properties it represents outdoors of the core caricature area. The corporate most just lately debuted its adaptation of the favored online game Cuphead, which made its streaming debut this February on Netflix as The Cuphead Present! and dropped a brand new batch of episodes in August.
“Younger readers all over the world look ahead to fixing the enjoyable, interactive brainteasers in Slylock Fox day by day and we’re thrilled to deliver these iconic characters to life on the large display,” mentioned Kettler. “Evan Daugherty and Chromosphere Studios each do unimaginable work and with this partnership we can create an interesting and significant story that captures the true spirit of the comedian’s mysterious adventures.”
“It has been a real pleasure creating Slylock Fox over time to deliver readers of the comedian pages one thing enjoyable and completely different with interactive actions centered round core training themes,” added Weber. “We look ahead to the following Slylock Fox mission and know that King Options, together with Chromosphere and Evan Daugherty, will create an thrilling, animated adaptation that’s certain to captivate our present followers and likewise attain a complete new viewers.”
A producer and distributor of well-known mental properties, in addition to a frontrunner in traditional character licensing and franchise improvement, King Options’ portfolio consists of such world-renowned popular culture manufacturers as Popeye, Cuphead, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Hägar the Horrible, Moomin, Prince Valiant and Mandrake the Magician. As content material syndication specialists, the corporate distributes beloved comics similar to Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Mutts and dozens of others in addition to columns, editorial cartoons and puzzles throughout a number of platforms and content material suppliers across the globe. King Options is a part of Hearst Newspapers, which publishes 24 dailies and 52 weeklies, together with the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Instances Union (Albany, New York), additionally working native digital advertising and marketing companies and directories.
Daugherty is repped by Verve, supervisor Jake Wagner and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
