Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation are preparing a new animated musical movie titled Bad Fairies for July of 2027. The film will be directed by Megan Nicole Dong (Centaurworld) and written by Deborah Frances-White (creator of the podcast The Guilty Feminist).Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, co-creators of the Tony-winning musical Six and upcoming production Why Am I So Single will be writing songs for the original movie, and Isabella Summers (Florence and the Machine) will be writing the score and producing the songs.
Bad Fairies is described as a subversive musical comedy set in contemporary London about a badass gang of fairies who break every rule in the book. The film will be the first to be released under the first-look deal between Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation and is slated for release by Warner Bros. The film is currently in production in London with DNEG Animation signed on as digital partners.
“Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation are excited to welcome this extraordinary dream team of musical talents, Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss and Isabella Summers into our Bad Fairies family,” said Bill Damaschke, President of Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Mary Coleman, Chief Creative Officer of Locksmith Animation. “Together they will bring vibrant and unforgettable dimension to the story, and we cannot wait to share it with audiences around the world in 2027.”
Animation veteran Carolyn Soper (Bolt, Tangled, Sherlock Gnomes) is the producer, with editor Sim Evan-Jones (Shrek, Shrek 2, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Shaun the Sheep Movie), cinematographer James C.J. Williams (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Nimona), character designer Uwe Heidschötter (The Little Boy and the Beast, That Christmas) and heads of story Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt (creators of Netflix’s We Lost Our Human and Pinky Malinky) rounding out the film’s key creative leads.
Other films on the Warner Bros. Pictures Animation slate include The Cat in the Hat, Thing One and Thing Two, Margie Claus, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, Toto, and Meet the Flintstones.
