EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a really cool project that just got greenlit at DC Studios and Warner Bros Pictures Animation: Dynamic Duo.
Dynamic Duo is the first joint project between DC Studios and the Bill Damaschke led WBPA.
The 6th & Idaho movie scripted by Matthew Aldrich is being made by a new animation studio out of New Orleans, LA called Swaybox by the studio’s husband and wife creators Arthur Mintz and Theresa Andersson. Mintz will direct this movie which follows the early days of Dick Grayson and Jason Todd aka the Robins. The duo call themselves the Dynamic Duo. They’re orphan thieves, best friends who share dreams of a better life, but their friendship will be tested by competing visions of a future out of which will come a new Dynamic Duo….
Note the storyline here isn’t connected to the Matt Reeves Batman and Penguin canon.
Swaybox uses a technology “Momo Animation” which is a cross between CGI animation, practical elements of stop-motion, and live-action real-time performance. The result is long-form storytelling that is billed to be visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive, and more human.
Producers on Dynamic Duo DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran, Swaybox Studios’ Andersson and 6th and Idaho’s Matt Reeves. EPs include Michael Uslan.
Beamed Reeves, “I have wanted to make a film with Arthur and Swaybox for many years, and for that film to be Dynamic Duo, an incredibly special and unique Batman and Robin story for families, is a dream.”
Co-founder and co-CEO of Swaybox Studios, Mintz, is a graduate of Columbia University. He was hired by animation legend Joe Ranft to work in the storyboard department on James and the Giant Peach. He was one of the contributing writers of Moonbot Studios’ Lost Ollie which went on to win multiple Emmy’s for Netflix. Mintz has directed many award-winning puppet theater productions.
Andersson, co-founder and co-CEO of Swaybox Studios, moved to New Orleans from Sweden when she was 18 years old to pursue a career in music. Andersson became known around the world as a performer and composer while touring her innovative one-woman looping show, a collaboration with Arthur Mintz inspired by the one-man puppet show. Andersson has performed on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. She has been Mintz’ producing partner since 2009.
The project news comes in the wake of DC Studios’ HBO and Max series The Penguin landing the biggest 4-day audience for a new series on Max in every region globally, since The Last of Us in Jan 2023. In the U.S., the series debut of the HBO Original averaged 5.3 million cross platform U.S. viewers over its weekend debut.