Six years after “Avengers: Infinity Warfare,” one other movie is vying to change into probably the most bold crossover occasion in historical past, this time within the lower-budget cinematic realm.
The filmmakers behind “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” — the micro-budget slasher that sparked headlines for turning A. A. Milne’s jovial bear right into a feral serial killer and made an unbelievable $5.2 million on the field workplace after costing beneath $50,000 to make — have unveiled “Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble,” bringing collectively Pooh and numerous different beloved youngsters’s characters gone dangerous.
The place “Avengers: Infinity Warfare” had Iron Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther and Thanos, “Poohniverse” — from prolific horror collaborators Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios — will group Winnie the Pooh with murderous variations of figures together with Bambi, Tinkerbell, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Tigger, Piglet, The Mad Hatter and Sleeping Magnificence for an IP-bludgeoning frenzy due for launch in 2025. Certainly, on the poster, which Selection can also be capable of solely reveal, Pooh is seen swinging a bear lure on a series whereas driving a vicious, bloodthirsty Bambi. As a result of why not?
“As horror followers, we might love an Avengers that’s all villains,” defined actor-producer Scott Chambers, who leads Jagged Edge. “It’d have Freddy Krueger, Jason, ‘Halloween,’ ‘Scream,’ all of these. Clearly that can by no means occur, however we are able to make it occur in our personal little method, and that’s the place this movie has been born.”
Lots of the characters set to look in “Poohniverse” will first function in standalone movies coming this 12 months and falling beneath Jagged Edge’s model of the MCU, the Twisted Childhood Universe. Amongst them are “Bambi: The Reckoning,” “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare” and “Pinocchio Unstrung,” plus final 12 months’s “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” and its sequel “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2,” which is being launched theatrically within the U.S. on March 26. The upcoming movies will embody numerous easter eggs linking them towards the upcoming horrifying crossover.
“We’ve bought entry to all these ideas so it’s like a self-contained bubble and we are able to do what we would like with them,” says Rhys Jake-Waterfield, who directed “Blood and Honey” and “Blood and Honey 2,” and can helm “Poohniverse.” “So yeah, it’s actually thrilling.”
Whereas the free plot for “Poohniverse” will see the the monsters group as much as tackle the survivors from the earlier movies, there received’t be concord throughout the ranks of the murderous ensemble, permitting for what Chambers describes as “carnage throughout the group” and “epic sequences of monster vs. monster.”
Casting is to incorporate Chambers returning as Christopher Robin, Megan Plactio as Wendy Darling, Roxanne Mckee as Xana and Lewis Santer as Tigger, with extra bulletins to come back.
“Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble” is a Jagged Edge Manufacturing with ITN Studios and Premiere Leisure dealing with gross sales. Stuart Alson and Nicole Holland will function govt producers for ITN.