DOOMSTAR: JANITORIAL is an Upcoming New Sci-Fi Animated Film Inspired By GHOSTBUSTERS and GALAXY QUEST
The director of the 2005 animated film Hoodwinked and Netflix’s upcoming Fearless, Cory Edwards, is set to write and direct a new sci-fi animated comedy titled Doomstar: Janitorial.
The movie follows a character named Gabe, “a lowly janitor on a powerful space station. When his own planet becomes the next target, Gabe and his blue-collar buddies attempt to sabotage the whole place. Aliens will chase them. Robots will taser them. But there’s nothing these guys can’t clean up.”
That sounds like it could be a lot of fun! When talking about the film, the director said that the movie is a love letter to the 80s and inspired by films like Ghostbusters and Galaxy Quest:
“This one is special. It’s a script I’ve been working on for a long time, something I’ve wanted to make for several years. It’s really my love letter to 80s sci-fi, and pulling from touchstone comedies like Ghostbusters and Galaxy Quest. There will be lazy robots, there will be alien karaoke, there be janitors cleaning up acid blood. My goal is to fill the cast with as many funny people as possible and let them play a lot.”
The movie is being produced by Vanguard Animation, and producer John Williams added:
“Cory did a great job as writer director of Fearless and Tom Jacomb and I had a great experience working on Valiant, Space Chimps and currently on The Silk Road Rally. We intend to make this a spectacular animated comedy sci-fi adventure that’s super fun for the sci-fi genre fans and general audiences too.”
For those of you not familiar with Fearless, the movie is set to debut on Netflix on August 14 and the story follows “a pair of teenagers who take on the hardest babysitting job on Earth when three super-powered babies are unlocked from a video game.”
Doomstar: Janitorial will have a $20-25M budget and Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Shrek 3 writer Peter Seaman is also working on the film as an executive producer and will contribute to story development.
Source: Deadline
