Atomic Cartoons (“Atomic”), will be developing and intends to produce Surf’s Up: The Series, a new animated series based on the hit film Surf’s Up from Sony Pictures Animation.
The animated series will be written by Lienne Sawatsky, Dan Williams, and John Hazlett, who are also the trio behind popular animated children’s series’ The Guava Juice Show and have written on many other beloved children’s series. All three writers will also serve as the series’ showrunners. Jennifer Twiner McCarron, CEO and Chair of Thunderbird Entertainment, Joel Bradley, President of Atomic Cartoons, and Aaron Behl, Senior Vice President of Originals at Atomic Cartoons, will serve as Executive Producers on the series, with Kitty Walsh, Executive Director of Development at Atomic Cartoons, as a Co-Executive Producer. Rick Mischel serves as Executive Producer for Sony.
Based on Sony Pictures Animation’s beloved 2007 film Surf’s Up, which was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature, Surf’s Up: The Series is being developed as an 11-minute animated comedy for kids ages six to nine. The show follows an over-confident teen penguin named Flip who teams up with a group of zany young surfers on his quest to become a surf legend. Things, of course, go spectacularly wrong and the wipeouts are epically embarrassing but together, Flip and his friends will build their own surf community on Pen Gu Island. The series will also feature the return of popular characters from the original Surf’s Up film including Cody Maverick, Big Z, and Chicken Joe, which will make the series appealing to fans of the movie as well.