The animated series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” will be presented as a world exclusive at the Annecy Festival
Developed for the American streaming platform HBO Max, the animated series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” will have its world premiere at the next edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which will be held from June 13 to 18.
Spectators will be able to discover the first episode of this fiction in the presence of showrunner Tze Chun, screenwriter Brendan Hay, and Joe Dante, the director of the film Gremlins who also served as a consultant on the series. Everyone will take part in a question and answer session at the end of the screening, the date of which has not yet been revealed by the Annecy Festival.
A prequel to the first film made in 1984, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai will set its scene in 1920s Shanghai. store in the first film – discovers the existence of Gizmo, a lost mogwai.
Accompanied by Elle, a teenage pickpocket, Sam embarks on a perilous journey to bring Gizmo back to his family. Along the way, the trio will have to face monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore, but also a power-hungry industrialist and his ever-growing army of Gremlins.
Available in 10 episodes, the Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai series will soon be available in France on the Cartoon Network channel, available via the offers myCHANNEL.