Kenneth Branagh to Voice Title Creature in David Mikalson's Hybrid A24 Movie GOBLIN; Skyler Gisondo in Talks to Join Cast
Academy Award winning actor Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet, Murder on the Orient Express, Oppenheimer) has signed on to voice the title character in the upcoming hybrid film Goblin. The project, called Ted meets E.T., was created by David Mikalson. His script circulated around Hollywood and while it wasn’t an immediate sell, the micro-budget picture with its raunchy and the green-colored, not to mention anatomically correct, title character, was enough to get A24 to jump right in.
Mikalson came out of nowhere as a native of Washington State who dropped out of film school and started making short films. After he hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, Deadline reports he delivered what became the most delectable read of that moment.
Branagh, who won the Oscar for his Belfast script, will provide the voice for the creature, and Skyler Gisondo, who followed Superman with Focker-in-Law, is in talks to play the creature’s pal.
When writer-director Mikalson’s film was picked up by A24, he commissioned a cake with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true. It’s pretty funny to see! Check it out below, and stay tuned for updates on the project.
