{"id":479591,"date":"2026-02-20T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479591\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:57:07","slug":"the-whitest-kids-u-knows-animated-film-mars-finally-has-a-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479591\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whitest Kids U’ Know’s animated film Mars finally has a trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few movies of recent vintage have had a longer or bumpier road to getting made than Mars, the first (and reportedly last) full feature-length movie from cult sketch comedy group The Whitest Kids U\u2019 Know. Originally conceived back in 2012\u2014shortly after the group\u2019s IFC sketch series went off the air\u2014the film has faced numerous hardships to getting made, none more obvious, or seemingly insurmountable, than the death of the group\u2019s co-founder, Trevor Moore, in 2021<\/a>. Now, though, the animated movie is finally gearing up to get a limited run in theaters and a wide release on physical media and VOD, complete with a trailer that starts with a close-up of a character very clearly modeled on, and played by, Moore. (Who completed his voice work for the film several years ago.)<\/p>\n

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Mars\u00a0had a debut at the Tribeca Film Festival back in 2024, although reviews for the film seemed fairly mixed. (If more positive than the response to the previous film that Moore made with fellow WKUK Zach Cregger, 2009\u2019s widely excoriated Miss March<\/a>.) Featuring voice performancess from Moore, Cregger, Sam Brown, Timmy Williams, and Darren Trumeter\u2014with the group having crowdfunded the film personally\u2014the movie was directed by Sevan Najarian, and focuses on a guy who wins a trip to Mars from an eccentric Richard Branson-esque billionaire (Moore).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The group is currently gearing up to tour\u00a0Mars\u00a0with Q&As at Alamo Drafthouses in locations across the country. (Would the film be getting quite this treatment if Cregger hadn\u2019t become one of the biggest names in horror over the last several years, courtesy of Barbarian and Weapons? Hard to say, although the Whitest Kids U\u2019 Know fanbase has remained both faithful and extremely vocal in the decade-plus since the show went off the air.)\u00a0Mars\u00a0is slated to release on BluRay on March 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few movies of recent vintage have had a longer or bumpier road to getting made than Mars, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-479591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}