Netflix Animation has had some hard weeks as tasks in improvement were culled. We’ve visible over 1/2 of a dozen animation tasks canned and every other we will now upload to the listing is Kung-Fu Space Punch which comes from Maya and the Three creator, Jorge R. Gutierrez.
First introduced all of the manner returned at Annecy Festival in 2017, Kung Fu Space Punch become initially predicted as an lively film that become defined as a “colourful lively sci-fi extravaganza”. Annecy, for folks who don’t recognize, is an animation pageant that takes area in France. According to Variety, pageant-goers were given to peer a work-in-development presentation of the assignment.
The plot, on the time, revolved round Johnny Holliday who is “an American Kung Fu cowboy man in area who falls in love with Ramona Sanchez, a hot-headed formative years rival grew to become hardcore Mexican cop, whilst combating the mythical villain Kathulo for the destiny of the galaxy.”
Since that presentation, matters had long gone darkish at the assignment with Jorge signing an ordinary cope with Netflix in 2020 and that specialize in different tasks which include Netflix’s restricted collection, Maya and the Three in which he served as writer, voice actor, and director.
Now we recognize that the assignment become in early improvement at Netflix and designed to be a Maya and the Three sequel that become set withinside the future.
Gutierrez defined the assignment as follows:
” This model of Space Punch might were similar to Maya And The Three, an authentic epic 270min (in nine chapters) restricted collection with a wholesome budget. With the manner streaming is presently going it makes feel to me why that is this sort of risk. I’m simply grateful it had every other shot. This Netflix model become an movement packed love tale with the reincarnations of Maya and Zatz as an outlaw and area sheriff. For anybody who noticed the Annecy presentation this become that instances 100!”
Now we recognize, but that the assignment isn’t shifting ahead at Netflix. The statement got here out on Twitter on May twenty seventh along preliminary plans for the assignment.
In a follow-up Tweet, Gutierrez said that the assignment should in the end move someplace else saying:
“It’s now no longer lifeless DEAD. Just now no longer shifting ahead at Netflix Animation. This manner I ought to set it up a distinctive studio to make it which of route is my plan. I adore this concept and it’s going to get made. The Book of Life took 14 years to happen. I’m a affected person hombre :)”
Other canceled Netflix Original animation tasks (that we recognize about) include:
Anti Racist Baby
Bone
Boons and Curses
Dino Daycare
Pearl
The Twits
Toil and Trouble
Wings of Fire
Despite the information of Kung Fu Space Punch being canceled, the creator’s lively Netflix characteristic film, I, Chihuahua, remains believed to be shifting ahead with Gabriel Iglesias attached. That assignment become first introduced simply more than one months in the past in March 2022.