Netflix animation My Father’s Dragon gets trailer and release date

Netflix revealed the first trailer and release date. My Father’s Dragon, an animated feature based on the classic children’s book. Cartoon Saloon in Ireland created this film.WolfwalkersThe book, ) will be published on November 11.

My Father’s DragonThis story is about Elmer Elevator, a young boy. Elmer, disoriented from moving to a new place, meets an alley cat and learns about Wild Island’s baby dragon. Elmer resolves to rescue the dragon — a plump thing, with blue and yellow candy stripes — and adventures to Wild Island, where he must outwit many cunning animals to reach his goal.

In the surreal 1948 book, written by Ruth Stiles Gannett and indelibly illustrated by her stepmother Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Elmer grows up to be the father of the book’s narrator — hence its title. Cartoon Saloon seems to be keeping the conceit alive with its voiceover framing device, as evident by this charming trailer.

The film is directed by Cartoon Saloon co-founder Nora Twomey, who also directed two of studio’s best films — The Secret of KellsAnd BreadwinnerBoth were nominated to the Oscars and featured on our 2010 list of best animated films. The pedigree could not be better. Jacob Tremblay and Jacob Tremblay are part of this cast.Zimmer, Luca) as Elmer and Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things) as Boris the Dragon, as well as the likes of Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ian McShane.