‘Intercats’ Animated Cat Office Comedy In Works At Disney+ – Deadline

Disney Branded Television is creating Intercats, an animated cat office comedy for Disney+ from Baobab Studios (The Witchverse), screenwriter Pamela Ribon (Ralph Breaks the Web, Moana) and Disney Tv Animation, the place Ribon has lately entered right into a first-look deal. The undertaking is Ribon’s first below the pact.

Right here’s the logline: Informed by the large reflective eyes of cats, Intercats is a four-quadrant animated office comedy in regards to the cats who produce the hysterical cat movies that go viral on the Web. It incorporates a ragtag crew of cats aspiring to get what all cats need: their independence. However, to take action, they need to first be taught to navigate their very own inner relationships and construct upon their success because the premiere studio for viral cat movies. Intercats displays the heroic lengths we are going to all go to search out and safe our personal place on the planet.

Baobab Studios co-founder and chief artistic officer Eric Darnell (Baba Yaga, Madagascar) is the creator and govt producer of Intercats. Gary Marsh can be an govt producer. Jony Chandra (Nimona, Spies in Disguise) will direct. Disney Tv Animation is working carefully with Baobab Studios on the undertaking.

“We’re lucky to be partnering with Baobab for a second time and to be working with Pam whose sensible, sly, refined and provoking humor ensures that Intercats will present wild enjoyable, wealthy characterizations and accessible entry factors for each a part of the Disney+ viewers,” stated Meredith Roberts, EVP TV Animation, Disney Branded Tv. “We’re thrilled to have her on this undertaking — and to develop the connection to incorporate an general take care of our Disney TV Animation studio.”

Ribon, recipient of the Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant’s 2022 Cristal Award, wrote two of Disney’s Oscar-nominated and Annie Award-winning movies, Ralph Breaks the Web and Moana, and Sony Animation Studio’s Smurfs: The Misplaced Village. Along with screenwriting, Ribon is a best-selling novelist, together with Entering into Circles and Why Ladies Are Bizarre, impressed by her web site, pamie.com, and a comic book ebook author (My Boyfriend is a Bear, Slam!). She additionally wrote an animated quick for FX, My 12 months of Dicks, which this yr gained recognition on the Annecy Worldwide Movie Pageant, SXSW, the Brooklyn Movie Pageant, the Los Angeles Latino Worldwide Movie Pageant and the Ottawa Worldwide Movie Pageant. Ribon is repped by CAA, Atlas Literary, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP.

9-time Emmy-winning Baobab Studios, based in 2015 by Maureen Fan, Darnell and Larry Cutler, has launched eight tasks up to now — Invasion!, Asteroids!, Jack, Crow: The Legend, Bonfire, Baba Yaga, Paper Birds, and Namoo.

Pamela Ribon is represented by CAA, Atlas Literary, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP.