Followers of Toy Story will need to tune into Netflix‘s adorable new project. On Aug. 2, the streaming service debuted the trailer for Lost Ollie, a four-part live-action and CG-animated series about a toy’s journey dwelling. The emotional and heartwarming story appears like one thing straight out of a youngsters’s guide — is that the place Misplaced Ollie got here from? Learn on to search out out extra about Misplaced Ollie’s inspirations.
What’s ‘Lost Ollie’ about?
Variety first introduced Misplaced Ollie in 2020. Shannon Tindle (Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings) signed on to create the collection, with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s Peter Ramsey set to direct. Shawn Levy, Josh Barry, Emily Morris, Brandon Oldenburg, and Lampton Enochs additionally joined as producers.
Starring Jonathan Groff because the voice of Ollie, Misplaced Ollie follows a stuffed rabbit’s journey as he finds his approach again to his proprietor, a younger boy named Billy (Kesler Talbot). Netflix’s trailer, seen under, reveals a bully taking Ollie from Billy and throwing him out of faculty. When Ollie wakes up in a completely different place, he turns into decided to go dwelling. Alongside the best way, Ollie faces risks and meets different stuffed pals.
Misplaced Ollie additionally stars Jake Johnson, Gina Rodriguez, Tim Blake Nelson, and Mary J. Blige.
Netflix’s ‘Lost Ollie’ adapts a youngsters’s guide
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Netflix’s Misplaced Ollie is an adaptation of William Joyce’s 2016 youngsters’s guide, Ollie’s Odyssey. The guide has a barely completely different premise: Ollie is kidnapped by an evil toy, and Billy should embark on a journey to avoid wasting Ollie earlier than the toy forgets about Billy solely.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tindle shared that he wished Misplaced Ollie to focus extra on loss slightly than the whimsy of the guide.
“It’s definitely an adventure, it’s definitely fun, but I also wanted it to deal with loss. I don’t think people talk about it enough. I wanted to have something that talked about it right up front, worn on his sleeve,” Tindle defined. “[Joyce] went through the loss of both his wife and his daughter. That’s what I connected to most in the story: the heart of what he had gone through.”
The present embraces similarities to motion pictures like ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Homeward Bound’
After all, followers will possible see the parallels between Misplaced Ollie and the Toy Story franchise. Tindle doesn’t thoughts that. The creator continued:
“It was an opportunity rather than an obstacle to have people imagine that this is something more akin to Toy Story, and maybe even Homeward Bound. That way, we could continue to surprise them because the tone has a wide range. Here’s the setup, here’s the big adventure, here’s the fun in episode 1. We continue that quest in episode 2. And then we start to gut punch you a little bit with things that happen to Ollie.”
Misplaced Ollie premieres on Netflix on Aug. 24.