EXCLUSIVE: Neon is closing up a deal for rights to Natalie Portman-voiced animation Arco, which not too long ago launched on the Cannes Movie Competition.
French director Ugo Bienvenu’s animated characteristic, which has been described as “France’s reply to Studio Ghibli”, is a couple of boy who makes use of rainbows to journey by means of time and his adventures as he will get caught within the fallacious period.
Oscar winner Portman can be producing with Sophie Mas underneath their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers.
It’s one other win for Neon, which has been voracious as soon as once more at Cannes, additionally buying The Secret Agent, It Was Simply An Accident and Sirat, along with Sentimental Worth, which they already had.
Taking its cue from the fantasy premise that rainbows are time machines, the film revolves round 10 yr previous rainbow-child Arco, who lives within the distant future, 2932. His maiden journey in his multi-colored swimsuit doesn’t go to plan. He loses management and veers off target to land in a close to future, 2075, the place Iris, a woman the identical age as Arco, witnesses his fall after which makes it her mission to get him dwelling.
Arco is the primary characteristic for Bienvenu after brief movies Maman and L’entretien and comedian books. His multi-awarded finest vendor System Desire has been translated in over 10 languages and was launched by Penguin within the US, England, and Canada on the finish of 2023.
Bienvenu, who studied and now teaches at France’s famed Gobelins animation faculty in Paris, has constructed his manufacturing crew from expertise he educated and nurtured there.
Portman is becoming a member of the English-language voice solid for the movie alongside Louis Garrel.
The French language voice solid will characteristic Alma Jodorowsky (Blue Is The Warmest Color), Swann Arlaud (Anatomy of a Fall), Vincent Macaigne (C’est La Vie, Suspended Time) and Louis Garrel (Little Ladies, The Dreamers) and rapper Oxmo Puccino.
Arco marks the primary characteristic animation for Portman and Mas’ MountainA since its launch in 2020. The corporate made its competition debut final Cannes with Todd Haynes’ Might December.
Goodfellas and CAA Media Finance are repping rights.
