Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus!

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Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
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Promotional poster
Based on Invader Zim
by Jhonen Vasquez
Written by
Story byJhonen Vasquez
Directed by
  • Jhonen Vasquez
  • Jake Wyatt
Starring
Composer(s) Kevin Manthei
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
Production
Executive producer(s)Jhonen Vasquez
Producer(s)Joann Estoesta
Editor(s)Jonathan Sims
Running time71 minutes
Production company(s) Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Distributor Netflix [1]
Viacom Media Networks
Release
Original networkNetflix
Picture format 1080p (16:9 HDTV)
Original releaseAugust 16, 2019 [2]
External links
Website

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus is an upcoming American animated film written by Jhonen Vasquez, Breehn Burns and Gary Wilson, and directed by Vasquez and Jake Wyatt. It is based on the animated television series Invader Zim , which was created by Vasquez and originally aired on Nickelodeon and later Nicktoons from 2001 to 2006. Originally created as a television film for Nickelodeon’s own network, Netflix bought its distribution rights in May 2019. The film is slated for release on Netflix on August 16, 2019. [1]

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Animation is a method in which pictures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). Computer animation can be very detailed 3D animation, while 2D computer animation can be used for stylistic reasons, low bandwidth or faster real-time renderings. Other common animation methods apply a stop motion technique to two and three-dimensional objects like paper cutouts, puppets or clay figures.

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Jhonen Vasquez American comic book writer, cartoonist, and music video director

Jhonen C. Vasquez is an American comic book writer, cartoonist, and music video director. He is best known for creating the comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, its spin-off comics Squee! and I Feel Sick, and the Nickelodeon animated series Invader Zim.

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Plot

When Zim suddenly reappears to begin Phase 2 of his evil alien plan to conquer Earth, his nemesis Dib Membrane sets out to unmask him once and for all. [3]

Voice cast

Richard Steven Horvitz American actor and voice actor

Richard Steven Horvitz, sometimes credited as Richard Wood, is an American actor and voice actor. In the world of animation, he has voiced mentally unstable and neurotic characters. He is known for his work voicing the original Alpha 5 in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo, Raz in Psychonauts, Kaos in Skylanders, Billy and Harold in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Grey Matter in Ben 10, Daggett in The Angry Beavers, Bumble in Kinectimals, the titular character in Invader Zim, Orthopox in Destroy All Humans!, the Zoni in Ratchet & Clank and the Space Weaver in Broken Age.

Rosearik Rikki Simons American voice actor, writer, graphic novelist, and artist

Rosearik Rikki Allen Simons is an American voice actor, writer, graphic novelist, and artist, best known as the voice of GIR in the Nickelodeon animated series, Invader Zim. Simons also co-created and wrote the Robotech: Clone comic series. In 2017, Simons voiced his first non-Invader Zim role as the Red Trollblin and some incidental Kotassian characters in the Cartoon Network series, Mighty Magiswords created by Jhonen Vasquez fan, Kyle A. Carrozza. He also does some frequent on-off voices on the show from time to time such as the Borfl in "Get that BORFL" and Dill in "To Balderly Go".

Andy Berman actor

Andrew Mark Berman is an American actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian, best known as the voice of Dib Membrane and various other characters in Invader Zim.

Fred Tatasciore, Mo Collins, and Michael McDonald are confirmed to be returning, though whether they'll be reprising their roles from the original series is currently unknown. [5] Supervising producer Breehn Burns and art director Jenny Goldberg are also confirmed to have voice roles. [6]

Fred Tatasciore American voice actor

Fred Tatasciore is an American voice actor.

Maureen Ann Collins is an American actress and comedian, known professionally as Mo Collins. She is perhaps best known for being a member of the ensemble on FOX's sketch comedy series Mad TV. Collins became well known for several characters during her tenure on the show.

Michael McDonald (comedian) American actor

Michael James McDonald is an American actor, director, writer, and comedian. He is best known for starring in the sketch comedy show MADtv. McDonald joined the show during the fourth season (1998) and remained in the cast until the end of the thirteenth and penultimate season, having become the longest-tenured cast member. While on the show, he developed many memorable characters. He was a contributing writer and director on MADtv.

Announcement

On November 8, 2016, Harvey Beaks and Chowder creator C. H. Greenblatt was asked by a fan on Tumblr if he would work with Jhonen Vasquez on an hypothetical Invader Zim movie, and Greenblatt responded, "Jhonen IS making an Invader Zim movie for Nick. I'm not a part of it, but I'm excited." However, Jhonen initially denied this on his Twitter, most likely because he was under contract to not say anything at the time and was forced to dismiss it as a "rumor". [7]

<i>Harvey Beaks</i> American animated television series

Harvey Beaks is an American animated television series created by C. H. Greenblatt. The series aired on Nickelodeon from March 28, 2015 until December 9, 2016, when it was moved to Nicktoons on March 1, 2017. The series completed its run on December 29, 2017.

<i>Chowder</i> (TV series) cartoon series

Chowder is an American animated television series created by C. H. Greenblatt for Cartoon Network. It is also the first Cartoon Network original series to premiere during Stuart Snyder's tenure, as Jim Samples had resigned months before the series premiere.

C. H. Greenblatt American animator

Carl Harvey Greenblatt is an American screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor. He has worked on the Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants, and on the Cartoon Network series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne. He is best known as the creator of Chowder for Cartoon Network and Harvey Beaks for Nickelodeon.

On April 4, 2017, over sixteen years since the series' debut and eleven years since the last "unaired" episode premiered in the United States, Nickelodeon announced that they had green-lit a 71-minute [8] television film based on the series.

To green-light is to give permission or a go ahead to move forward with a project. The term is a reference to the green traffic signal, indicating "go ahead". In the context of the film and television industries, to green-light something is to formally approve its production finance and to commit to this financing, thereby allowing the project to move forward from the development phase to pre-production and principal photography.

A television film is a feature-length motion picture that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2018, Jhonen explains that Nickelodeon had been asking him about doing more Invader Zim for years and that he always had to decline their offers either because he was busy working on something else or due to not being able to come to an agreement with Nickelodeon on a budget for a Invader Zim revival; but being "completely miserable" with the other things he was working on at the time, Jhonen accepted Nickelodeon's latest offer to do more Invader Zim. Nickelodeon initially wanted a new Invader Zim television series, but Jhonen suggested a six-episode miniseries instead. He soon changed his mind to a television film, since doing a film would be "infinitely less stressful". [9] [10]

Promotion

Three teaser trailers for the film were released in the next four days following the initial announcement. [11]

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus had a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 20, 2018; during the panel, some never-before-seen production art such as backgrounds and turn-around charts for the film were revealed. A trailer put together out of unedited first take animation for the film was also shown at the panel accompanied by some original music composed for the trailer by Kevin Manthei. During the panel, Jhonen explained that he put the trailer together out of some random animated footage he had for the film that he thought looked presentable enough to show people and that most of the shots used in the trailer were going to be sent back overseas to be re-animated. [9]

Production

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio in collaboration with Maven Animation Studio in South Korea. During the Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 20, 2018, Jhonen revealed that they had written the film in 2015 and that at the time of the panel, they were currently in the process of getting first take animation back from their overseas animation team, Maven Animation Studio. [9] [10]

Jhonen Vasquez will be returning as executive producer and as the voice of Zim's computer, along with Kevin Manthei as the composer, and Jenny Goldberg, who worked on the Invader Zim comic book series, will be the art director for the film. Breehn Burns, the supervising producer for the film, confirmed on his Twitter account that production on Enter the Florpus! officially wrapped on January 17, 2019. [12] On February 1, 2019, Nickelodeon held a cast-and-crew-exclusive screening of Enter the Florpus. [13] [14] [15]

On May 10, 2019, Viacom president Robert Bakish revealed in a conference call that Netflix has acquired the distribution rights to both Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling and Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus. [16] [17]

On July 23, 2019, Netflix released a clip of the special with the release date shown. The movie was announced to be released on August 16, 2019. [18] On July 24, 2019, the Nickelodeon Animation Studio held an exclusive pre-screening of Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus which was only accessible for ASIFA-Hollywood members. [19] [20]

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  2. ↑ "You asked for it, so we're delivering a fresh order of doom right to your doorstep. Zim is back". Twitter. @NetflixNX. 23 July 2019.
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  10. 1 2 "The Darkest Thing Invader Zim Ever Got Away With - Comic Con 2018". IGN. 20 July 2018.
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  12. ↑ @breehn (17 January 2019). "This sticky note has been on my monitor at Nickelodeon for over a year, and today it's coming down. Tomorrow, the Invader ZIM TV Movie is wrapped" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. ↑ @JhonenV (1 February 2019). "Images from last night's cast and crew screening of ENTER THE FLORPUS. Well done, cast and crew, for surviving this production of mine. You win THIS time....BUT I WON'T FAIL NEXT AGAIN" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  14. ↑ @RichardHorvitz (1 February 2019). "Did I just attend a cast and crew screening of a certain EPIC!!!! TV movie?....maaaaayyybeee!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  15. ↑ @kevinmanthei (1 February 2019). "All good things come to an end. The cast and crew screening of #invaderzimentertheflorpus was last night and it was epic. Epic and funny really. There are jokes nearly every 5 seconds and invaderzim fans will..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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  18. ↑ "You Asked for It, So We're Delivering a Fresh Order of Doom Right to Your Doorstep - Zim Is Back". The Futon Critic . July 23, 2019.
  19. ↑ "Double Feature Screening Of Invader Zim: Enter The Florpus And Rocko's Modern Life Static Cling". ASIFA-Hollywood . Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  20. ↑ @jerrybeck (25 July 2019). "Last night at Nickelodeon, screening the new INVADER ZIM movie and ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE special - in advance of their debut in August on Netflix. Don't miss them!" (Tweet). Retrieved 27 July 2019– via Twitter.
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