Deborah Frances-White pens animated musical comedy film Bad Fairies
Deborah Frances-White is writing an animated musical comedy film about rogue fairies for the producer of Ron's Gone Wrong.
The stand-up and host of The Guilty Feminist podcast is penning Bad Fairies, set in contemporary London, which focuses on a "badass gang of fairies who break every rule in the book" US entertainment website Deadline reports.
The comedian previously wrote the 2018 live action rom-com Say My Name, starring Lisa Brenner, Nick Blood and Mark Bonnar.
Bad Fairies is one of two fairytale-related films being made by UK-based Locksmith Animation under a new first-look deal with Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group to develop and produce animated features for worldwide distribution, along with The Lunar Chronicles, a sci-fi twist on Grimms' Fairy Tales.
In development since at least 2018, Bad Fairies has Megan Nicole Dong, creator and director of Netflix's animated musical series Centaurworld, attached to direct.
Ron's Gone Wrong was Locksmith Animation's first feature film and took more than £47million at the box office internationally. The 2021 picture about a boy and his defective robot, written by Alan Partridge and Borat scribe Peter Baynham, featured stand-up and The Hangover star Zach Galifianakis as the voice of the titular Ron, alongside Olivia Colman, Rob Delaney and Ed Helms.
The studio's second feature, currently in production for Netflix and due for release next year, is Richard Curtis's That Christmas, based on the Blackadder creator's own series of children's books.