Damon Albarn has confirmed {that a} feature-length Gorillaz movie that was within the works at Netflix, has been cancelled.
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The frontman first introduced the movie in October 2020 earlier than confirming the band had been working with Netflix on it simply over a 12 months later.
“I’m at Netflix as a result of we’re making a full-length Gorillaz movie with Netflix,” he mentioned on the time. “Yeah, we’re having a writing session in Malibu this afternoon. It’s actually thrilling to try this. It’s one thing we’ve been desirous to do for a really very long time. It’s been by way of so many incarnations…this Gorillaz doing a film. Truthfully.
“However Netflix, I don’t know. I imply, other than them sort of working this metropolis now, I imply – it’s simply extraordinary to see how ubiquitous they’re now. Yeah. They only appear to be they’re an excellent inventive workforce, ?”
However because of a reduce within the streaming platform’s animation division, Albarn has now confirmed that “it’s going to by no means occur.”
In a brand new interview with the Belgian publication HUMO, he added: “The streaming platform for which we had been making the movie has withdrawn. They began to panic as a result of they had been making an excessive amount of content material and determined to chop again on their film choices.
“And, as has been basic Hollywood apply for many years, the man we had been working with has moved on to a different firm. From then on you could have misplaced your guardian angel, and there appears to be a nasty scent hanging on you. Hollywood is sort of territorial: if a brand new man comes alongside, he should and may have a unique opinion, even when he secretly agrees along with his predecessor.”
In the meantime, Gorillaz are set to launch ‘Cracker Island’, their eighth studio album, this Friday (February 24) by way of Parlophone (pre-order right here).
A brand new Gorillaz music pack to accompany the debut of the upcoming PlayStation VR2 headset was additionally not too long ago introduced and the band shared a brand new animated video for his or her current single ‘Silent Operating’ that includes Adeleye Omotayo.