Post-Barbie, we’re firmly within the renaissance of “game and toy” media. This has at all times existed to a point, and to various ranges of success—see: G.I. Joe, Battleship—however Greta Gerwig actually proved you may make one thing out of some flimsy IP and have it’s good and profitable. Now Mattel is out right here entertaining pitches about Uno and Bass Fishin’, of all issues. Enter Exploding Kittens, a unusual twenty first century card recreation with no current storyline to attract from however an inexplicable Netflix deal nonetheless. If you had been taking part in a rousing spherical of Exploding Kittens, you most likely wouldn’t have imagined it changing into an animated sequence produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, of all individuals. Yet right here we’re: Exploding Kittens is an actual present with an actual trailer, and it’s about God, for some purpose?
“Earth sucks, so God (Tom Ellis) gets fired and sent to Earth to reconnect with humanity. The catch? He’s trapped in the body of a chubby house cat,” the synopsis for the animated comedy reads. “As part of his rehabilitation, he moves in with a dysfunctional family and tries to solve their problems, but ends up spending a lot of time chasing laser pointers. And to top it off, Godcat’s next-door neighbor, who is also a cat, turns out to be none other than his nemesis, the Antichrist. The result is the ultimate fight between good versus evil…except, Godcat (Ellis) is distracted by a pigeon he saw in the yard and Devilcat (Sasheer Zamata) is busy napping on someone’s laptop.”
If you’ve performed Exploding Kittens, the animation model on this trailer shall be acquainted to you. The remainder of it’s sort of a swerve, though who knew what to anticipate from this entering into, so there weren’t actually any expectations to swerve. There are certainly plenty of explosions, colourful feline characters, and bodily excretions. And, weirdly, a divine battle between good and evil. (This is clearly a departure for Ellis, who performed the satan on his final present, Lucifer.)
Lucy Liu was hooked up to this challenge in some unspecified time in the future, however within the two years this present has been creating, she apparently dropped out. The voice forged is rounded out by Suzy Nakamura (Abbie), Mark Proksch (Marv), Ally Maki (Greta), and Kenny Yates (Travis). Judge and Daniels of King Of The Hill fame function government producers, whereas Shane Kosakowski (You’re The Worst) and Matthew Inman (co-creator of the cardboard recreation) function showrunners. The sequence will premiere in July 2024.
