Wonder Park is an upcoming 2019 American-Spanish computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies, with Ilion Animation Studios handling animation. The film will feature the voices of Brianna Denski, Matthew Broderick, Jennifer Garner, Ken Hudson Campbell, Kenan Thompson, Ken Jeong, Mila Kunis, John Oliver, Kath Soucie, David Cross and Norbert Leo Butz.
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Music by | Steven Price |
Cinematography | Juan García Gonzalez |
Edited by | Edie Ichioka |
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Budget | $100 million |
The film is scheduled to be released on March 15, 2019 by Paramount Pictures. A television series based on the film will debut the same year on Nickelodeon, making it the third animated film from Nickelodeon Movies (after Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Barnyard) to spawn an animated series on the network.
Screenplay
A young imaginative girl named June (Brianna Denski) spent her childhood days constructing an amusement park filled with fantastical rides and inhabited by talking animals called Wonderland with her mother (Jennifer Garner) and her friends. After growing up, she lost her sense of imagination and wonder, until she finds the real Wonderland in the woods. She needs to team up with the animals to stop the destruction of Wonderland by Chimpanzombies and bring it back to life.
- Brianna Denski as June Baily, an orphaned optimistic, imaginative girl
- Sofia Mali as Young June
- Ken Hudson Campbell (US), Tom Baker (UK) as Boomer, a narcoleptic blue bear
- Jennifer Garner as June's Mom
- Matthew Broderick as June's Dad
- Kenan Thompson (US), Joe Sugg (UK) as Gus, a beaver who is Cooper's best friend
- Ken Jeong (US), Caspar Lee (UK) as Cooper, a beaver who is Gus's best friend
- Mila Kunis as Greta, a warthog
- John Oliver as Steve, a porcupine
- Oev Michael Urbas as Banky
- Norbert Leo Butz as Peanut, a chimpanzee
- Kevin Chamberlin as Uncle Tony
- Kate McGregor-Stewart as Aunt Albertine
- Kath Soucie as Bus Counselor Shannon
- David Cross
- Richard Kind
- Daran Norris as Principal Peters
Production on Wonder Park commenced in September 2014. In June 2015, it was revealed that Spain's Ilion Animation Studios would produce the fully animated 3D film. In November 2015, Paramount Animation officially announced the project originally titled Amusement Park, with animator Dylan Brown helming. The voices in the film would be provided by Matthew Broderick, Jennifer Garner, Ken Hudson Campbell (originally Jeffrey Tambor), Kenan Thompson, Ken Jeong, Mila Kunis, and John Oliver.
In January 2018, it was reported that director Brown was fired from the production by Paramount Pictures following an investigation into complaints of "inappropriate and unwanted conduct". No replacement as the film's director was announced at that time. David Feiss was later announced as Brown's replacement. In April 2018, the title of the film was changed from Amusement Park to Wonder Park.
Wonder Park is scheduled to be released on March 15, 2019, by Paramount Pictures in 3D. The film was originally going to be released on March 22, 2019. In January 2017, it was moved up from its original release date of March 22, 2019 to July 13, 2018. A few months later, it was pushed back from July 13, 2018 to August 10, 2018, and by August 2017, it was pushed back for a final time from August 10, 2018 to March 15, 2019.
Marketing
On July 9, 2018, the first teaser trailer was released, and it was screened theatrically with Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation and Christopher Robin. The first official poster was released on October 30, 2018. The second trailer was released two weeks later on November 13.
Prior to the movie's release, Paramount Animation has announced that a TV series based on the film will debut in 2019 on Nickelodeon after the film's theatrical release, making it the third animated film from Nickelodeon Movies to have a TV series spun-off from the film after Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Barnyard, also making the TV series based on the film Paramount Animation's first television series.