A year since announcing the project in development during the 2023 Annecy Festival, Singapore’s Robot Playground Media has completed the pilot episode of its adult animated horror anthology A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts, based on Ying Chang Compestine’s novel.
The studio provided Animation Magazine with the trailer appetizer for this first installment in this feast: Egg Fried Rice. Watch it below!
The anthology consists of 10 stand-alone episodes, each centered on an iconic Chinese dish and animated in different styles by indie animation studios from around the world.
Egg Fried Rice, commissioned by Singapore’s Mediacorp and produced by Robot Playground Media and Studio Climb (Malaysia) is now completed. An atmospheric period horror piece about a woman’s plot to murder her husband and stepdaughter, it draws inspiration from the works of Satoshi Kon, Guillermo del Toro and Zhang Yimou.
Robot Playground Media is in active development on the rest of the episodes alongside its partner studios (previously announced as Igloo Studio in Thailand; Something Big, Disnosc and Werlen Meyer in France; and Xanthus Animation in Taiwan; in addition to Studio Climb) while seeking presales, distribution and minority co-producers to join the project.
