Festivals - Annecy 2022 : World Premiere of Gremlins : Secrets of the Mogwai

By Mulder, 18 march 2022

Warner Bros Animation and Amblin Television are launching Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Producers Tze Chun, Brendan Hay, and Joe Dante will attend the premiere of this highly anticipated HBO Max Series.  

Gizmo and the mischievous mogwai are about to hit the streets of Annecy: Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, will have its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The first episode of the animated series, a prequel to the successful franchise, will be screened in the Grande salle de Bonlieu. The date and time will be announced later. 

The Festival will welcome executive producers Tze Chun and Brendan Hay, as well as Joe Dante, director of the film Gremlins and consulting producer for the series, who will attend the screening and participate in the Q&A that will follow on the making of this highly anticipated series, during an Event Session. 

 Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai is an American computer-animated fantasy comedy television series that will air on HBO Max in the US. The series will consist of 10 episodes and will serve as a prequel to the 1984 film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel The New Batch. It will be written and produced by Tze Chun. Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Sam Register and Brendan Hay are also executive producers. In February 2021, prior to the series premiere, the series was renewed for a second season.  The series will air on Cartoon Network as part of their ACME Night block.

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai takes us back to 1920s Shanghai and reveals how 10-year-old Sam Wing (the future Mr. Wing, the store owner in the 1984 film) met the young mogwai named Gizmo. 

The animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai is produced by Amblin Television, in cooperation with Warner Bros. Animation. Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, and Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, presidents of Amblin Television, are executive producers. Tze Chun is both showrunner and executive producer, while Brendan Hay is also executive producer and Dan Krall is executive producer. 

The HBO series Max will soon arrive exclusively in France and French-speaking territories on Cartoon Network.

Synopsis: 
Shanghai, 1920s, 10-year-old Sam Wing (future owner of the Mr. Wing store in the 1984 film) meets the young Mogwai, Gizmo. With a young street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and sometimes fighting, monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore. In their quest to return Gizmo to his family and discover a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Based on Gremlins by Chris Columbus, Joe Dante, Michael Finnell
Developed by Tze Chun
Voices of Izaac Wang, Ming-Na Wen, B. D. Wong James Hong, Matthew Rhys, A. J. Locascio, Gabrielle Green
Executive producers : Tze Chun, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Sam Register Brendan Hay
Production companies : Amblin Television, Warner Bros. Animation
Distributor : Warner Bros. Television Distribution, WarnerMedia Direct
Original network : HBO Max, Cartoon Network