Superworm

Superworm (2021)

Superworm is super-long and super-strong, and is always saving the day. But who can save him when he gets too full of himself and is captured by the evil Wizard Lizard?

Date of release
2021-12-25
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (13)
Runtime
25m
Genres
Animation, Family, Comedy, TV Movie
Director
Jac Hamman, Sarah Scrimgeour

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Superworm

Superworm is a 2021 British short computer animated TV film based on the 2012 picture book of the same name written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Directed by Jac Hamman and Sarah Scrimgeour, the film was produced by Martin Pope and Barney Goodland of Magic Light Pictures and was adapted from the book by Max Lang and Suzanne Lang, with the score composed by René Aubry.

Production

Donaldson found the cast of A-list actors to be "brilliant, they’re all so good" but admitted that she had not initially heard of them before. The directors, Jac Hamman and Sarah Scrimgeour, had worked with Magic Light Pictures on their holiday specials starting with the 2015 short film for Stick Man, and were attracted to adapting Superworm for film because the work was an "adventure comedy where the protagonist is an earthworm with a hero compl…

Storyboarding and pre-production of Superworm began during the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. As the directors were based in South Africa and the studios were based in the United Kingdom, they had to work together remotely through video calls. Studio co-founders Martin Pope and Michael Rose were not able to make film set visits.

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