“I think it’s a good time to say this as if this is in deed still in development over at Sony Pictures Animation, then let’s be honest…

Netflix should NOT pick up this movie because they already have too many animated movies in their catalog that is already overgrown to the point of oversaturated, okay sure some like the Aardman movies, Klaus, Ultraman Rising, That Christmas, Wish Dragon, Sea Beast, In Your Dreams, and Leo made sense, but with the Sony Pictures Animation collabs of Mitchells vs the Machines, Vivo, and especially K-POP: Demon Hunters all bypassing cinemas to be dumped to streaming where they’re already being treated like generic kids movies and not pieces of art like the Spider Verse movies and what critics think by putting clips of the movies they acquired on their kid channels (the former two did make a little sense as a certain virus made them go to Netflix even if other PG films of their time like War with Grandpa were released during that same period, it made zero sense with K-POP as the film before this, Across the Spider Verse made $600 million dollars worldwide, more so than what Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks made that year with their own movies released that year and that success could have translated K-POP to do the same, but nope…).

But with that said, this should be avoided with their next original movie if it’s still in production, which is a Thai Fantasy film that is being directed by Matt Braly (the creator of Amphibia) and co-written by Rebecca Sugar (creator of Steven Universe), which tells the story of a young boy who goes on an emotional journey to a fantastical world of Thai spirits where he hopes to have his illness cured.

Instead of Netflix or Prime Video stealing the film away, an indie studio that often gives original content a chance on the big screen must pick up this project to put it on the big screen and that is A24, which is an independent film studio that has gotten a lot of attention in recent years especially after putting out its most acclaimed film in 2022, Everything Everywhere All at Once and is starting to expand its portfolio in the medium of animation with the acquisition of Hazbin Hotel (which is a Prime Video series), putting out a stop motion hybrid, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and most recently acquiring the English dub to the biggest animated feature worldwide, Ne Zha 2, and that should be the step in the right direction to get the rights to Matt Braly’s Sony Pictures Animation movie for a theatrical release.

We deserve to see the works of Matt Braly and Rebecca Sugar on the big screen and NOT on a screen this small (obviously a reference to Cinemark’s “It’s More (adjective), When It’s Cinematic” campaign since 2020), like Netflix regrettably did for Mitchells and K-POP