{"id":30541,"date":"2025-07-29T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30541\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:06:10","slug":"stephen-curry-animated-pic-goat-adds-jennifer-hudson-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30541\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry Animated Pic ‘GOAT’ Adds Jennifer Hudson to Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Hudson<\/a>,\u00a0Aaron Pierre<\/a>, Jelly Roll<\/a>, Ayesha Curry, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee Sherry Cola and Eduardo Franco are set to join the voice cast of the Sony Animation<\/a> pic Goat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey join previously announced cast members Stephen Curry<\/a>, Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Nick Kroll, Nicola Coughlan, David Harbour, Jenifer Lewis, and Patton Oswalt. The animated sports comedy is directed by Tyree Dillihay and co-directed by Adam Rosette.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is produced by Stephen Curry and Erick Peyton of Unanimous Media, Michelle Raimo Kouyate, Adam Rosenberg, and Rodney Rothman of Modern Magic. David Schulenburg serves as co-producer, with Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder as executive producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn collaboration with the NBA, Sony Pictures Animation will release\u00a0GOAT\u00a0theatrically on February 13, timed perfectly for NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDirecting voice actors for animation is like conducting musicians in an orchestra and Goat is the symphony. We are extremely blessed to be directing this incredible cast bringing charisma, creativity and comedy to our love letter to the underdog,\u201d said Dillihay and Rosette.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world. The story follows Will, a small goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play\u00a0roarball\u00a0\u2014 a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Will\u2019s new teammates aren\u2019t thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, but Will is determined to revolutionize the sport and prove once and for all that\u00a0\u201csmalls can ball!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to keep building an incredible roster of talent that brings the characters of Goat to life,\u201d said Erick Peyton and Stephen Curry of Unanimous Media. \u201cGoat is a high-energy, laugh-out-loud adventure filled with heart, and we hope audiences will see themselves in these characters. And the best part? We\u2019re just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHudson is represented by CAA and Original Project, Peirre is represented by WME, Anonymous Content, Hamilton Hodell, Sloane Offer Weber & Dern, Jelly Roll is represented by CAA, Left Right, and 1220 Entertainment and Ayesha Curry is represented by CAA and Midnight Dawn. Santino is represented by UTA and Lee is represented by CAA and Leviton Management. Franco is represented by UTA and Mosaic and Cola is represented by CAA and Stark Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Hudson,\u00a0Aaron Pierre, Jelly Roll, Ayesha Curry, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee Sherry Cola and Eduardo Franco are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28830,1840,64,63,134,28831,28832,28833,344,7903],"class_list":{"0":"post-30541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aaron-pierre","9":"tag-animation","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-goat","14":"tag-jelly-roll","15":"tag-jennifer-hudson","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-stephen-curry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}