On Friday, animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Primal) posted gorgeous check footage for his present movie mission, Black Knight, on Instagram. There’s only one drawback: The movie could by no means even get launched.
As Tartakovsky defined in his caption, Black Knight has been in improvement for six years. Nevertheless, the studio, Sony Animation, is not sure that there is a theatrical viewers for the grownup fantasy epic.
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“We made a down and soiled check, and nonetheless no go,” Tartakovsky wrote of his makes an attempt to sway Sony. “So to strive one thing completely different I assumed I’d share the check to see if it might probably get a floor swell of pleasure that will change the studio’s thoughts.”
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The minute-long check footage is chock-full of atmospheric motion. It introduces the titular Black Knight, a 20-foot-tall go well with of armor that Tartakovsky says is managed by ropes, pulleys, and levers by a knight inside. On condition that the movie is ready across the 14th century, that makes the Black Knight the medieval equal of a mech go well with.
Within the footage, the Black Knight crosses paths with an agile, masked younger lady armed with chains. The following battle is transient however partaking, with the masked lady’s agility countering the Black Knight’s huge sword swings.
Black Knight is not the primary of Tartakovsky’s tasks to expertise difficulties in improvement or launch. Within the early 2010s, Tartakovsky was engaged on a Popeye movie for Sony. He exited in 2015, and Sony later scrapped the mission. His newest movie, Sony’s Mounted, was initially meant to be distributed theatrically by Warner Bros. Footage. The studio dropped it in 2024, however Netflix acquired its distribution rights and launched it in 2025.
With Black Knight, it seems that Tartakovsky is settling in for what’s now a well-known struggle, albeit with completely different techniques. As he wrote in his caption for the check footage, “Properly, this may get me in bother….However gotta strive a brand new technique.”
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