From “Your Fairly Face is Going to Hell” to livestream gaming send-up “Closing Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough,” Casper Kelly has all the time endeared himself to the formidable and the offbeat. His expertise has confirmed a golden egg for Cartoon Community’s grownup nighttime programming block, with episodic contributions from Kelly on animated Grownup Swim sequence’ “Squidbillies,” “Harvey Birdman, Lawyer at Legislation,” and “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.”
As a result of Kelly’s historical past with Grownup Swim is crammed with TV episodes and quick movies, “Yuletide Log” (additionally titled “The Fire”) could be his first pitched characteristic movie, and likewise Grownup Swim’s first live-action horror film. Kelly goes on to substantiate to Bloody Disgusting that he received approval to stretch his thought for size, however solely after he agreed to do the film for a similar finances — a problem not in funds, however in taffy-pulling the idea from a weird quick right into a coherent (as coherent as generational time-jumping will be) ninety-minute film.
Kelly elaborates to /Movie’s Erin Brady:
“Oh man, I realized a lot. I believe with the Grownup Swim stuff I do, which is often 11 minutes, it is nearly like a ‘Three Stooges’ cartoon. However right here, it’s essential have some extra which means, ideally, and a few character arcs and a few character adjustments and be about one thing, like a thematic debate about one thing. I believe that helps … I imply, you do not have to do this, however I assumed it will be good to have that.”
Kelly additional tells Erin that he is “received the bug,” and has two tasks within the works. Like his strategy to “The Fire” the filmmaker has one foot in horror, the opposite in sci-fi; the remaining is being saved below wraps for now, so preserve your ears perked and eyes peeled, and preserve these fires stoked for bizarre horror.
