A second venture from Jorge R. Gutiérrez has been canceled at Netflix. The creator behind the critically acclaimed animated restricted collection Maya and the Three had been engaged on his characteristic movie I, Chihuahua for a number of years however introduced right this moment, through X, that it had been canceled. Nonetheless, it is going to be shopped elsewhere.
First introduced to the public again in March 2022, the venture notably had Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias connected, each voicing the lead position and serving as a producer. Doug Langdale and Candie Kelty Langdale had been on board to write down the movie alongside Gutiérrez, who signed a artistic animation partnership with Netflix in October 2020.
The synopsis for the film was as follows:
“After studying his beloved house is in peril, a younger Chihuahua named Chacho dons a Lucha Libre masks to turn into Luchacho! Our masked underdog enters a world battle match, competing towards a hilarious and eclectic mixture of animal fighters from everywhere in the world, resulting in the ultimate epic battle towards the nefarious beast often called Chamuco, The Widow Maker!”
Since then, we’ve had just a few updates from Guitierrez all through the artistic course of, which for an animated film is commonly lengthy and laborious, to say the least.
In August 2023, the creator offered a short replace writing, “i’m at the moment in the midst of the insanely epic however actually troublesome “I Chihuahua” script rewrite.”
Quick ahead almost a yr and the famed animator and director posted an image of character drawn with the caption, “My film is lifeless.”
The submit on X itself got here with the phrase “Hollywood.” It is a long-running meme from the creator, who typically posts photos or movies about chaotic situations and labels them Hollywood signaling that it’s a loopy enterprise and sometimes not honest or proper. He’s proper.
Gutierrez later adopted up that Tweet with a reply, “Nothing in Hollywood is ever lifeless,” and one other with an image captioned, “What’s it with Hollywood and demise?”
“..since everyone seems to be asking, my beloved “I Chihuahua” is, as of now, formally lifeless at FAN (Function Animation Netflix) over “artistic variations”. I am keen on the movie with all my coronary heart and completely plan to get it made some place else. Netflix is being actually cool about letting me take it exterior so I couldn’t be extra excited and longing for the long run.”
That is simply the newest venture to be scrapped on the streamer. In latest months, The Mothership was canceled regardless of having been filmed; it was quietly introduced that an animated film known as Escape From Beverly Hills with Noah Baumbach and Scarlett Johansson’s involvement had quietly been scuppered, and most just lately, the New York Occasions revealed that Kathryn Bigelow’s new big-budget thriller Aurora is not shifting ahead.
