#a hero for wondla

[art-of-pluton]

I'm currently rereading WondLa, so it's time to make fanart of course

I have more drawings from the series planned 👀

[orbona]

We finally got the a first look and more information on the upcoming WondLa series! Tony posted these images to his socials, along with a link to the official PR release.

We have release a date! It is set for June 28, 2024 on Apple TV+. It is slated for 7 episodes and will cover the first book.

Casting announcements!

- Jeanine Mason (“Roswell, New Mexico”) as Eva

- Teri Hatcher (“Desperate Housewives”) as Muthr

- Gary Anthony Williams (“TMNT: Out of the Shadows”) as Rovender

- Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) as Otto

- Chiké Okonkwo (“The Birth of a Nation”) as Besteel

- D.C. Douglas as Omnipod

- Alan Tudyk as Cadmus Pryde

[aviolinstruggle]

God I am calling it right now I think that Apple/Skydance changed the Omnipod from a handheld, magnifying glass-shaped device to that freaking airtag on Eva’s sleeve. I hope to god I’m wrong, but it hasn’t appeared in any of the promotional stills we have, and well… just look at this thing:

Like we can’t put it past them considering all the other design changes they made 😔

[dracocheesecake]

I've been reading Wondla (so good btw I love it) and this is part of my impression of Rovender Kitt:

[origin-spirits-of-the-past]

The scream I screamed while watching the Wondla tv series and seeing the shattered moon in the sky, which I don’t remember from the book series. This is especially WILD considering this book series contains what i’m almost positive is an homage to the Enhanced, in the second book. Hair turns white in the heart of the forest???? Dude holy shit. Also I could have sworn the book series had a person turn into a tree also. Which is another commonality.

I won’t try to claim this is any sort of plagiarism, I just think the concepts Fuck severely and I want to see more of things like them. Also it makes me happy to know this might be an homage to my favorite movie.

Wondla(2010-2014):

Origin(2006): Hair turns white/silver after making a deal in the Heart of the Forest.

Also!! Both these characters end up as determined nature protectors that try to stop human technology that could continue to destroy the planet 👀

[skinteresting-enough]

Currently 150 pages into A Hero for WondLa, and I do wonder if they're gonna give the Gens (or whomever their equivalent may turn out to be) iridescent hair in the second season of the WondLa animated series.

If they do, I will be frothing at the mouth over it, but considering how drastically they already changed Eva's design from book to series... It leaves me wondering.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: A Hero For WondLa | Author: Tony DiTerlizzi | Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2012)

[justanormalseagull]

This is a Wondla love blog

Do you like world building???

Do you like nature??

Do you like found family??

The search for Wondla is a story about a young girl raised in a sealed hi tech home learning about how to survive on earth. Her home gets attacked, forcing her to leave. She arrives on the surface to a world utterly alien to her

On her journey she comes across alien friends and and civilizations in a world so colorful I’ll read it a thousand times over.

She’s searching for a family, for home, for humans, for Wondla

[autumnalfallingleaves]

Apple TV let me in so I can redesign the WondLa cast and give them their souls back-

Anyway. Have a show Eva redesign because what the fuck is this soulless plastic shit. Ultimately went with a mixture of book and show but made sure to give her her complicated hairdo back 🫡

please do not repost my art

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Big-ass Netflix animation news drop yesterday, ahead of Annecy and the release of ULTRAMAN RISING... Netflix is on a lot of shit-lists for a variety of things, including their careless race towards making more animated features but expecting them to be cranked out like it's a factory process or something... But I will say, the feature line-up they revealed yesterday sounds like banger-central. Too bad most of them likely won't see a physical media release, though.

WALLACE & GROMIT feature #2, VENGEANCE MOST FOWL... Coming later this year, featuring Feathers McGraw from THE WRONG TROUSERS... The hype is real.

The last half of 2024 will also be when Netflix debuts Skydance Animation's SPELLBOUND, that long-gestating fantasy picture from SHREK director Vicky Jenson with new Alan Menken-Glen Slater songs... I guess LUCK nuked whatever partnership Skydance, John Lasseter's current studio, had with Apple, although their new show WONDLA is debuting on that platform.

Skydance looks to follow up SPELLBOUND with TANGLED director Nathan Greno's POOKOO, another fantasy tale with otherworldy critters. Only a matter of time when we find out RAY GUNN, Brad Bird's retrofuturistic sci-fi noir whose development history dates aaaaall the way back to the mid-'90s, comes out.

Also curiously, prior to these announcements, Disney Animation director Don Hall (WINNIE THE POOH, BIG HERO 6, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, and STRANGE WORLD) has joined the ranks at Skydance. Another director who worked under Lasseter at either WDAS or Pixar, now working for him again. I'm guessing he didn't particularly enjoy directing his last two features at WDAS under Jennifer Lee's stewardship, thus - much like Nathan Greno and Rich Moore - went back to his old pervy boss. Skydance Animation undeniably has a lot of top talent there, and directors of past animation blockbusters, but it really just sucks that it's run by Lasseter. And apparently he's running it just like he did with Pixar and WDAS, just as toxic. He micromanages projects once more and buckles directors under his mandates, like Alessandro Carloni, who was supposed to direct LUCK... But these guys are his favorites, so I presume they'll do fine over there.

Next year sees the release of IN YOUR DREAMS, from directors Alex Woo and Erik Benson. Two total opposite brothers who go to dreamland and try to convince the Sandman to save their parents' failing marriage, sounds promising. We already knew about THE TWITS, and also THE IMAGINARY, which debuts in a few weeks. Three imaginary friends movies in one year, coincidentally the year FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS turns 20... I refuse to process that. I was so big on FOSTER'S back in the day, when I was 12 years old. Speaking of TV cartoons and adaptations of those, THE PLANKTON MOVIE is also on the boards for 2025, continuing the Netflix SpongeBob movie series running alongside the theatrical ones.

I'm also very happy to see that Sony Animation's wild-sounding K-POP: DEMON HUNTERS, from directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, is underway and will be debuting sometime next year. Sony Animation also revealed a new HOTEL, I mean... MOTEL TRANSYLVANIA series, and are still at work on the GHOSTBUSTERS animated series as well. Since this was all for Netflix-only projects, not a peep on the GHOSTBUSTERS animated movie that's also on the rails. I wish DEMON HUNTERS was heading to theaters, though, that's such a bonkers-looking film that would work great like that. Much like their MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES, but that got re-routed because of COVID, so I get that.

Curiously, no word on THE SHRINKING OF TREEHORN, a book adaptation from director Ron Howard. First thought to be a 2023 release, Netflix picked up the picture in 2022 and didn't set a date... Maybe it's gone the way of EMBER and other canned Netflix animated movies? Or a new date will be inked eventually? If it's aiming for 2026, then that'll explain the absence.

I'll keep my eyes on these as they get closer, but my top picks are VENGEANCE MOST FOWL and K-POP: DEMON HUNTERS.

[paintingchimera]

I realised, I haven’t done an intro post yet, so let me introduce myself!

UPDATE

Hello! Im Astrid

I’m into Dungeon meshi, Signalis, Coffee talk, Hunger games, Murder drones, Death stranding, Detroit become human, God of war, Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Mythical creatures, Haikyuu, My hero academia, Tokyo Ghoul, Mouthwashing and dinotrux

I’m a lesbian, Girlflux and I go by she/they.

My main hyperfixation right now is The wild robot, Wondla and Mouthwashing I tend to go into deep researched about my hyperfixations so I know a lot, especially about signalis. I even make my own ocs too,

[don’t bully my hyperfixation on dinotrux 😞 I’ve watched for for years ever since it came out]

[art-of-pluton]

I reread WondLa series recently!

It's a funny story actually, because i read the first volume when I was like ten?? And LOVED it, but never finished the series because they never translated the whole thing to polish. So I actually only read the trilogy three years ago and now I have each volume in differet edition haha

[devotedgossamerreader]

I REMEMBER THESE

From Tony’s twitter

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In anticipation of the A M A Z I N G series coming to AppleTV from Skydance Animation next year, I had the pleasure of refreshing the cover art for The WondLa trilogy. These new editions will available in hardcover or paperback on September, 2023.

[dracocheesecake]

Spoiler Warning For the Wondla Books

...Ok, so are we not going to talk about how Eva Eight dated Hailey's dad (Evan Seven)? Are we going to gloss over that? And that he didn't abandon her, he got eaten by sand-snipers? And Eva Nine and Hailey were almost adopted siblings?

[theamazingsallyhogan]

Enceladus V

The Premise of Enceladus V is simple: There's a group of young adults stuck on a generation ship traveling through the vast void of space, they've never set foot on a planet and likely never will, and they're sending short video clips back in time to our era to say hello.

Or as the kickstarter puts it

By the year 2150...

the Earth’s climate had shifted so drastically that it became near uninhabitable for humankind. In orbit above the Americas, the continent’s greatest scientists and engineers worked tirelessly to create a vessel big enough to hold what remained of the population. The vessel was built and dismantled many times as several different designs failed or fell short. Until, on the fifth iteration, in a rare instance of all of humanity coming together, brilliant minds from around the world collaborated to create a city-sized, self-sustaining, mobile habitat: The Enceladus V. The successful design was replicated twice more, with the Enceladus housing the remnants of The Americas and Canada, The Hyperion for Europe and Africa, and The Titan for Asia and Australia. The Fleet left Earth on a long, steady journey toward the closest Earth-like planet, Proxima B

Our story begins eight generations later....

These short animations are the project of Anna Lencioni, a storyboard artist with an impressive resume including Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, DC Super Hero Girls, Onyx Equinox (which she worked on with her wife and is hoping to one day return to), Amphibia, Helluva Boss, and soon Hazbin Hotel and The Search for WondLa.

Lencioni has fleshed out her universe pretty thoroughly, but her goal here is to create something that works as a series of short clips of animation, to better make use of a small budget. It seems like a pretty fun project and I hope more people will contribute to the kickstarter (link)!

Character profiles under the cut.

[spacefinch]

A list of my favorite characters associated with the sky, birds, and/or flight.

Tom Paris (Star Trek Voyager)

Callum (The Dragon Prince)

Skyla (Pokémon)

Winona (Pokémon)

Falkner (Pokémon)

Kahili (Pokémon)

Hera Syndulla (Star Wars Rebels)

Mart Mattin (Star Wars Rebels)

Wedge Antilles (Star Wars original trilogy)

Hikaru Sulu (Star Trek TOS)

Hailey Turner (The Search for WondLa)

Jason Grace (Heroes of Olympus)

Nyx (The Dragon Prince)

Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel

Clint Barton/Hawkeye (elder)

Kate Bishop/Hawkeye (younger)

Sam Wilson/Falcon

Dashi (Octonauts— she flies the Octo-Ray!)

Nausicaa (Studio Ghibli— Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)

Pazu (Studio Ghibli— Castle in the Sky)

Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

Han Solo (Star Wars)

Sabi (Braviary’s warden in Pokémon Legends Arceus)

Hækel (The Search for WondLa trilogy)

Hope Van Dyne/the Wasp (MCU)

Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (Star Trek TOS— he might not be a pilot, but he sure as heck loves the feel of flying.)

Sabine Wren (Star Wars Rebels)

Jinora (The Legend of Korra)

Nyota Uhura (Star Trek TOS— her first name means “Star!”)

Zinnia (Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire)

Elesa (Pokémon)

Zym (The Dragon Prince)

Queen Zubeia (The Dragon Prince)

Note: I use “sky” in a very broad sense here. It could mean the air itself or the wind. It could mean clouds and rain. It could even mean thunder and lightning storms. It also means the night sky as well.

Anyway, I think it’s safe to say I have a type when it comes to characters I like. This probably isn’t even all the Sky or bird associated characters that I know of.

Some things about me (which explain my taste in characters)

I am a huge bird nerd, both on this site and IRL.

Everyone who follows this blog knows I go by “Finch” for my online persona.

There was a time I wanted to be a pilot, before realizing it was too hard

I’ve wanted to be an ornithologist since I found out what it is. I want to study birds for a living.

I went through a WW2 aircraft phase during my sophomore year in high school