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Double Edge backs "The Little Monk" |
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Written by Elizabeth Guider & Patrick Frater
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Monday, 28 May 2007 |
Taipei and LA-based Double Edge Entertainment has inked a deal with top feature animation writer Tab Murphy to do his first half-hour, 3-D animated TV series called “The Little Monk.”
Taiwan-based animation house CGCG will handle the production work on the series.
Murphy will write and produce “The Little Monk,” based on the Double Edge property, about a rambunctious young Shaolin monk, destined for greatness as a martial arts master, if only he can make it through childhood. Ken Aguado will exec produce the series along with Murphy and Double Edge principal Bobby Sheng.
Murphy, whose writing credits include the Disney animated films “Tarzan,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Atlantis,” has already begun a pilot script for “The Little Monk” and production is expected later this year.
“I’ve considered doing animated series in the past, but this is the first story I felt a real connection to, as it deals with the humorous trials and tribulations of growing up, something I experience every day through the eyes of my six children,” Murphy said.
CGCG, which did the animation for the the animated TV series “Alien Racer” and “Xcalibur,” among others, will produce using its facilities in Taiwan. Production and rendering of key characters and setting has already commenced. No domestic distribution Stateside has been set yet.
Double Edge finances and produces features films and handles distribution in Taiwan and throughout Asia. Its shareholders include two of the largest banks in Taiwan along with consumer electronics giant BenQ and support from the Taiwanese government.
It has recently boarded the video-game adaptation of "King of Fighters," to be directed by Hong Kong action director Gordon Chan and produced by Axis Entertainment's Joseph Chou and Tim Kwok of LA's Convergence Entertainment. The cash rich company is already financing financing Diane Keaton and Liv Tyler-starrer "Smother" and Paul Walker-Piper Perabo vehicle "The Heaven Project," which are both repped by Inferno Distribution.
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