Sony to make ‘Bubble’ podcast into an animated film

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the makers of the adult comedy animated movie, Sausage Party are working on another animated film aimed at adult audiences. The duo is developing an adaptation of the podcast series Bubble for Sony Pictures Animation.

The podcast Bubble is a sci-fi comedy satire set in Fairhaven, a utopian city enclosed inside a bubble on an alien planet, and follows a group of hipsters who use an app not unlike Uber to pick up side jobs hunting monsters that swarm the planet.

Attached as executive producers are Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, James Weaver and David Manpearl, with Maximum Fun and Morris as co-exec producers. Camilla Grove of Matt Tolmach Prod. brought in the idea.

Released by Sony’s Columbia Pictures, Sausage Party (2016) was a breakout for R-rated animated features, bagging more than $140 million in worldwide box-office off a budget of just $19M.

The production sparked controversy, however, with animators and other employees at Canada’s Nitrogen Studios successfully suing for unpaid overtime, and British Columbia media union Unifor Local 2000 issuing an official complaint. Founded by Greg Tiernan (director of Sausage Party with Conrad Vernon) and Nicole Stinn in 2003, Nitrogen is now part of U.K.-based Cinesite.

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