Steven Universe Creator Rebecca Sugar Will Helm Upcoming Moomin Adaptation

Rebecca Sugar is yet making her diagnostic movie debut. The Steven Universe creator is acceptable to helm the archetypal ever U.S.-produced animated movie astir Moomin, the saccharine magical troll who looks similar a hippo.

Sugar volition constitute and nonstop the upcoming film, which adapts creator Tove Jansson’s enactment for the large screen. The task volition beryllium a co-production betwixt Moomin Characters and Annapurna Animation, who antecedently released the 2022 animated deed Nimona and person started moving connected an animated adaptation of the beloved video crippled Stray.

“We are thrilled to spouse with the talented Rebecca Sugar arsenic good arsenic Annapurna for this milestone caller film,” CEO of Moomin Characters Roleff Kråkström said successful a statement. “We are excited to spot however this accomplished squad volition reinterpret the beloved Moomin stories and for them to beryllium discovered and rediscovered by aged and caller fans alike.”

Rebecca Sugar is producing an animated movie astir Moomin. Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for ReedPOP.

Co-presidents of Annapurna Animation Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein added: “We’re honored to bring Tove Jansson’s timeless imaginativeness to the large screen. Along with Rebecca and Julia, we can’t hold to present these beloved characters — and the humor, heart, and subversive tone Tove brought to her enactment — to caller audiences.”

Producer Julia Pistor — who is known for her enactment connected The Rugrats Movie and The Spongebob Squarepants Movie — is besides acceptable to nutrient the feature.

Jansson’s artwork and stories person been a taste touchstone for implicit 80 years, truthful it makes consciousness to spot it yet coming to the metallic screen. It has been adapted for tv successful much than 120 countries and Jansson’s Moomin books person been translated to implicit 60 languages globally. But successful caller years, the franchise has regained mainstream popularity successful the United States. The Brooklyn Public Library hosted an grounds connected the quality from June to September, and helium and his friends were besides precocious the taxable of a diagnostic communicative from The New Yorker successful August.

This is, of course, highly breathtaking quality — but it gets adjacent better, due to the fact that Sugar is besides moving to grow the Steven Universe beingness with Lars of the Stars. This upcoming spinoff bid volition absorption connected abstraction outlaw Lars Barriga and volition bring Sugar backmost into concern with her husband, enforcement shaper Ian Jones-Quartey.

No connection connected merchandise dates for either task conscionable yet, but we can’t hold either way.

Photo by Matthew Chattle/Future Publishing via Getty Images.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.