{"id":172009,"date":"2025-09-27T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172009\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:45:07","slug":"genndy-tartakovsky-posts-animation-test-to-change-studios-mind-about-medieval-mech-suit-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172009\/","title":{"rendered":"Genndy Tartakovsky posts animation test to &#8220;change studio&#8217;s mind&#8221; about medieval mech suit movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animator Genndy Tartakovsky has bounced back and forth for years between more mainstream, studio-friendly projects (most notably the\u00a0Hotel Transylvania\u00a0films, but also his well-loved work on\u00a0Star Wars) and more out-there projects. (Including his most recent film, the raunchy, not-especially-well-received Netflix dogs comedy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/fixed-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fixed<\/a>.) Now the\u00a0Dexter\u2019s Lab\u00a0creator is pushing even further afield: Releasing test footage of a film he\u2019s been working on for the last six years,\u00a0Black Knight, in an effort to \u201cget a ground swell of excitement that would change the studio\u2019s mind\u201d after his corporate partners declined to move forward on the picture. (Tartakovsky doesn\u2019t specify the studio in his social media post, but Black Knight\u00a0was originally set up at Sony Pictures Animation back in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/07\/hotel-transylvania-helmer-genndy-tartakovsky-fixed-black-knight-sony-pictures-animation-1202433175\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to\u00a0Deadline<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Writing \u201cWell, this might get me in trouble\u2026\u201d Tartakovsky posted the 40-second animation clip to his Instagram on Friday. The video shows a gigantic knight\u2014apparently a medieval mech suit being operated with ropes and pullies, although none of that (probably pretty cool to see!) stuff is in the animation test\u2014fighting a much smaller ninja-style opponent. We\u2019ll concede that it is\u00a0kind of neat-looking, even if the net effect isn\u2019t maybe as revolutionary as Tartakovsky was hoping for it to be; it doesn\u2019t look all that different from some of the other stuff Sony has put out in recent years, or even projects like Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Arcane.<\/p>\n<p>Tartakovsky has used test footage to try to build enthusiasm for a project before; notably, he and Sony put out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M1lzJuwJD9k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an early animation offering<\/a> for a planned\u00a0Popeye\u00a0movie back in 2014 that never wound up getting made. It\u2019s not clear how well allegedly going behind the studio\u2019s back to build up enthusiasm for Black Knight\u00a0will work out for him, although it\u2019s worth noting that Tartakovsky has made Sony a\u00a0lot\u00a0of money over the years with the\u00a0Transylvania\u00a0movies, which presumably buys at least some amount of goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                 &#13;<br \/>\n      &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Animator Genndy Tartakovsky has bounced back and forth for years between more mainstream, studio-friendly projects (most notably the\u00a0Hotel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-172009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}