Braves (Dreamworks Movie)

Braves is a 3D animated fantasy action film Produced by Dreamworks Animation in asaociation whit Aries Creative, Pearl studio and BigCat Studio and Distribuited By Universal Pictures. The film is directed by Pendleton Ward (creator of the Adventure Time series) and produced by Yang Tzu Ting in association with Pendleton Ward, Rebecca Sugar, Ben Bocelet and Fred Seibert. The film is based on the Taiwanese comic book series of the same name by Yellow Book and serves as Pendleton's directorial debut. The film stars Jaeden Matel, Ron Perlman, Hailee Stenfield, Richard Steve Hortiz, Zazie Bets, Jacob Hopkins, Mark Whalberg and Jennifer Laurence and tells the story of a boy who decides to stop the king of demons and his entourages, but when faced with They realize that they are not what everyone thinks and that their group is not on the true side of justice.

Braves was released on September 7, 2024 in the United States and Taiwan by Universal Pictures. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, praising its story animation and characters considering the film as "A Great Leap For Ward".

Sinopsis
A Brave Youth named Arthur who lives in a fantasy RPG world decides to join the Braves to stop the threat of Morewant the king of demons along with his retinues, but after coming face to face with him he discovers that Morwant is not as evil as he seems to be and that demons are not evil entities, so he must stop King Gabriel while he unravels the origins of demons.

Voice actors
Some of the producers such as Rebecca Sugar and Fred Sienbert did additional voices and some actors like Tom Kenny and even Pendleton himself did voice cameos.
 * Jaeden Matel is Arthur/Main Brave
 * Ron Perlman is Morewant
 * Hailee Stendfield is Dracaris/Dragon Brave
 * Richard Steve Hortiz is Maliz/Goblin of Goblins and Baba/Slime of Slimes
 * Zazie Bets is Mobs/Bunny
 * Jacob Hopkins is Kirus/Sick Demon
 * Mark Whalberg is Ignitus/Fire Demon
 * Jeniffer Laurence is Aquaris/Water demon
 * Liam Nesson is King Gabriel Artemis Morling III
 * Steven Yeun is Robert Lernuis II/Superstar Brave
 * Tara Strong is Katranis/ Sword Brave and Libidy/Desire Queen
 * Bill Harder is Fideus/Loyal Brave
 * Jhon DiMaggio is Morpheis/ Black Brave
 * James McAvoy is Alverus/Chief Brave

Production
In 2021 Bigcat Studio Released an animated series based in the yellow book comic called Brave Animated series in Netflix Although the series was well received, it did not have a large audience, causing the series to be quite underrated. on August 20, 2022 Dreamworks announced a new movie for 2024 which confirmed that the director would be Pendleton Ward and that the writer would be Yang Tzu Ting Along with Rebecca Sugar. On November 7, the official cast was announced in a panel on YouTube, in this panel when Pendleton was going to say the title, it was always censored according to Rebeca Sugar herself, she said that the reason why dreamworks censored the title was to keep it secret On April 14, 2023, the first promotional poster was released and the title of the film "Braves" was revealed. That same day it was known that Owen Denis along with Daniel Pembelton and Weifan Chang would make the music. On October 26, the teaser trailer for the tape was officially released with the song "Heroes" by Blaze n Vill from the movie The Lego Ninjago Movie, on February 16, 2024 the official release date of the tape was confirmed. And it was confirmed that the film would be a co-production with Bigcat Studios, Pts, Aries Creative and Pearl Studio, on April 1 as an April Fools' joke they decided to release a badly animated fake trailer with a message from Pembelton saying "Happy Fool's Day fool" on May 2, the trailer was officially released saying in the video description that "It's not a joke in bad taste. I'm serious -Ward". on August 14 the second trailer was released along with a translated version of the intro song of the netflix series "Devil and Brave" along with an original song called "Heart of Warriors" sung by Hailee Stendfield with Kid Kudi