{"id":749339,"date":"2026-08-25T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749339\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:06:10","slug":"michel-gagnes-long-awaited-the-saga-of-rex-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749339\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Gagn\u00e9\u2019s Long-Awaited &#8216;The Saga Of Rex&#8217; Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After 14 years of painstaking, almost entirely solo production, Michel Gagn\u00e9 has finally released the epic first trailer for The Saga of Rex, a 60-minute hand-drawn feature that he created, designed, directed, and animated largely by himself.<\/p>\n<p>The only other person to contribute to the film\u2019s visuals was a single inbetweener, his friend Seung Kim. Throughout its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/books\/the-saga-of-rex-promo-by-michel-gagne-68216.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lengthy production<\/a>, he continued taking select jobs on major Hollywood films, using that work to help finance the independent project and further develop his filmmaking skills.<\/p>\n<p>Gagn\u00e9 boasts an absolutely ridiculous resume, including effects work on Don Bluth productions such as An American Tail, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go to Heaven, and several standout \u201990s live-action and hybrid features like Space Jam, Mortal Kombat, and Demolition Man. He served as an effects animator and supervisor on The Iron Giant, headed 2D effects on Osmosis Jones, and created the celebrated taste visualizations in Pixar\u2019s Ratatouille. His other credits include Star Wars: Clone Wars, Brave, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Brad Bird\u2019s upcoming Skydance feature Ray Gunn. Gagn\u00e9 also co-created and directed the video game Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, which won BAFTA and Annie Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The Rex character first appeared in Gagn\u00e9\u2019s self-published 1998 book A Search for Meaning: The Story of Rex. The character later featured in Kazu Kibuishi\u2019s Flight anthology before Image Comics collected the complete story as a graphic novel in 2010. Gagn\u00e9 began developing an animated adaptation following a successful 2012 Kickstarter campaign. Belgian studio Grid Animation subsequently optioned the film, but the rights reverted to Gagn\u00e9 in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make the film that was in my soul,\u201d said Gagn\u00e9, a BAFTA and Annie Award-winning filmmaker whose credits span more than 25 features. \u201cTo do that, I needed to remove the commercial and transactional aspects of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Final sound work is now underway, with completion targeted for the end of 2026. Festival screenings and wider release plans are expected to follow in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 14 years of painstaking, almost entirely solo production, Michel Gagn\u00e9 has finally released the epic first trailer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}