{"id":356803,"date":"2026-03-20T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356803\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:01:08","slug":"dreamworks-animations-forgotten-island-adds-jo-koy-dolly-de-leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356803\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamworks Animation&#8217;s &#8216;Forgotten Island&#8217; Adds Jo Koy, Dolly de Leon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jo-koy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jo-koy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Koy,<\/a> Dolly de Leon, Ronny Chieng and Amielynn Abellera are set to join the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/dreamworks-animation\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dreamworks-animation\" data-tag=\"dreamworks-animation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DreamWorks Animation<\/a>\u2019s upcoming animated feature \u201cForgotten Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThey join <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/forgotten-island-cast-her-dave-franco-jenny-slate-1236564620\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/forgotten-island-cast-her-dave-franco-jenny-slate-1236564620\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Lea Salonga, Dave Franco, Manny Jacinto and Jenny Slate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWritten and directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, \u201cForgotten Island\u201d follows two friends, Jo (H.E.R.) and Raissa (Soberano), who find themselves stranded in the mystical world of the forgotten island of Nakali. They come to find that their only way home might come at the expense of a lifetime of memories and emotions. \u201cForgotten Island\u201d centers around Filipino folklore, but its beating heart is a universal story of lifelong best friends who share love, memories and experiences. But what if, one day, they forget all about you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film marks the third collaboration between Crawford and Swift, and Mercado\u2019s directorial debut. Mercado served as co-director on \u201cPuss in Boots: The Last Wish\u201d and head of story for Crawford on \u201cThe Croods: A New Age\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFilipino-American composer Nathan Matthew David, who worked on \u201cTenet\u201d and \u201cThe Mandalorian,\u201d is set to provide the score for the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cForgotten Island,\u201d described as an action-adventure animated comedy, will be released on Sept. 26. The first trailer is set to drop next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKoy is represented by Arsonhouse Entertainment, CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman. Chieng is represented by Artists First, IAG, Cohen &amp; Gardner and Sechel. de Leon is represented by Gersh, Fusion Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample &amp; Klein. Abellera is represented by Maitely Weismann at Aspire Talent Management as well as legal representation at Sloane, Offer, Weber &amp; Dern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jo Koy, Dolly de Leon, Ronny Chieng and Amielynn Abellera are set to join the cast of DreamWorks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31365,93,61,60,161801,270],"class_list":["post-356803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dreamworks-animation","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jo-koy","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}