Chances are, if you visit sites like this, the name Genndy Tartakovsky needs no introduction to you. Most animation fans adore the man for his talent on display in creations like Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Primal (and I didn’t think Unicorn: Warriors Eternal was that bad either).
But there’s a Tartakovsky movie you’ve never seen before, and we don’t mean the Popeye project that never got off the ground. We mean a feature film that was supposed to come out through Warner Bros last year, until they decided they didn’t want it. It’s VERY different, and shows a side of Genndy no one’s seen before: the side capable of producing R-rated sex comedies about bulldogs threatened with the loss of their personal equipment.
Fixed is about Bull, a dog sentenced to be neutered by his owners the following morning. With one last night remaining as a “whole” dog, he decides to go on a hedonistic bucket-list adventure with his buddies, and raunchy chaos ensues. Fixed is also a 2D animated movie, and yes, it was intended for the big screen. If The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie hadn’t beaten them to it, this would’ve made an…interesting return for the art form after so long.
This movie has been completed for some time, but WB seemed to feel Fixed was unmarketable, so they removed it from their theatrical schedule last August. That might’ve been the end of the story in some cases, but this time, the movie was a co-production with Sony Pictures Animation, which meant the full rights were now reverted to them. At the time, Netflix was mentioned as a possibility, and it seems to have come to pass.
Fixed will premiere on Netflix August 15, nearly one year from the day WB dumped it, Sony announced today. In addition they published the first-ever round of screenshots from the movie; up to now all that has publicly existed is a promo drawing of a panicked dog with the movie’s logo covering his naughty bits.
“I have been friends with the same group of four guys since high school,” Tartakovsky is quoted as saying. “These guys make me laugh like nothing else, so I was thinking, ‘Can I translate this humor to animation?’ I love caricatured and exaggerated animation, so I knew the sensibility that I like to do and it was a matter of dialing [up] the amount of exaggeration. I think it started out as a rated-R Lady and the Tramp, then as we got into it, it naturally became more cartoon-y and specific to itself. I would say it began to really take shape as we were fortunate to hire some of the best animators working in 2D from around the world.”
That list of animators included Joanna Davidovich, a wonderful person I’ve been following on social media (GET ON BLUESKY, JOANNA) and her YouTube channel where she livestreams drawing sessions and takes requests. Joanna has mentioned several times during those streams that she worked on Fixed, but the material wasn’t to her taste (“Raunchier than anything on Adult Swim,” she has said). Guess we’ll see.
Fixed stars the voices of Adam Devine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Bobby Moynihan, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Michelle Buteau and River Gallo. It premieres on Netflix this August.
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