Deltarune

Deltarune is a live action/computer animated comedy drama fantasy adventure film, which is based on the original game by Toby Fox. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it serves as the pseudo-sequel to Undertale: Genocide. Directed by Taika Waititi, Joaquim Dos Santos, and Madeline Sharafian and written by Phil Lord, Matt Braly, Oren Uziel, and Vanessa Taylor, it stars Jack Dylan Grazer, Britt Robertson, Elijah Wood, Michael Cera, Brenda Song, Liam Nesson, Omar Sy, Alan Tudyk, Sterling K. Brown, Ryan Potter, Norman Reedus, and Dave Franco. Although some characters from the original movies appear in this movie, the film is still considered a psuedo-sequel to according to Fox.

The film is set in a alternate universe where the human and monster war never happened, the film's story follows a human named Kris and a monster named Susie as they fall into another world full of people called Darkners where they are accompanied by Ralsei, a prince of the dark, Noelle, a classmate of Kris and Susie, and Lancer, a jester who is the son of a abusive king, who must stop the evil of this land, which seeps into their world.

The film grossed $412 million at the box office and gained mostly positive reviews from critics and fans of the original game, who praised the cast, writing, direction, and more.

Plot
The movie begins the story as Kris, a human child living in a village mostly made up of monster residents, with their adoptive mother Toriel, who is also a monster. Toriel drops Kris off at school, where Kris attends a class taught by Alphys. Kris and Susie, a delinquent monster classmate, are sent to get chalk for the blackboard. Upon entering the supply closet, both of them are pulled into the "Dark World". There, they meet Ralsei, a prince of the dark, who tells them that the three of them are heroes destined to close the Dark Fountain (a geyser of dark energy) to restore balance to that world. However, the King has seized control of the Dark World and is determined to spread darkness.

Susie chooses not to help, only wanting to return to her own world. Before she can leave, the three encounter the King's son Lancer, who tries to stop them from proceeding with various poorly thought out plans. Susie eventually decides to join Lancer, leaving Kris and Ralsei on their own. As Kris and Ralsei make their way to the King's castle, Susie befriends Lancer, and the four ultimately become a team. Upon realizing that they will have to confront the King, Lancer runs off to the castle and arranges for the King's henchmen to throw Kris, Ralsei, and Susie into the dungeon.

Susie escapes the dungeon and confronts Lancer, who explains he wanted to keep Susie and the King from hurting each other. Susie promises Lancer she won't hurt the King. Kris, Susie and Ralsei go to the top of the castle and confront the King in battle. Eventually, the King falls to the ground in exhaustion and Ralsei takes pity on him, healing the King. However, this is revealed to be a ruse as the King quickly incapacitates the three heroes, threatening to kill them all. If the player has resolved enemy encounters without violence throughout the game, Lancer turns the King's men against him and imprisons him, taking his father's place as king of the Dark World. Otherwise, Susie subdues the King using Ralsei's Pacify spell.

Kris closes the Dark Fountain so that they can return to their own world. There, Susie says goodbye, expressing interest in returning to the Dark World. The player can explore the town before having Kris go home to bed. That night, Kris shakes in bed, then falls on the floor and limps to the center of the room. Kris tears into their chest and rips out their heart-shaped SOUL, throwing it into a birdcage in the corner of the room. The player can move the SOUL around inside the birdcage, but cannot do anything else. Kris draws a knife and turns toward the viewer. They smile, with their right eye flashing red.

Light World

 * Jack Dylan Grazer as Kris-
 * Hailee Steinfeld as Susie-
 * Brenda Song as Noelle-
 * Robert Sheehan as Birdly-
 * Justin Felbinger as Monster Kid-
 * Angela Bassett as Catti-
 * Patton Oswalt as Jockington-
 * David Cross as Snowy-
 * Charlene Yi as Temmie-
 * Ryan Potter as Asriel-
 * Jessica Chastain as Toriel-
 * Idris Elba as Asgore-
 * Ali Wong as Alphys-

Dark World

 * Elijah Wood as Ralsei-
 * Michael Cera as Lancer-
 * Liam Neeson as King-
 * Omar Sy as Rouls Kaard-
 * Alan Tudyk as Jevil-
 * Sterling K. Brown as Seam-
 * Norman Reedus as Gaster-
 * Dave Franco as False Knight-
 * Matthew Rhys as the King of Diamonds-
 * Keira Knightley as the Queen of Hearts-
 * Rita Ora as the Queen of Clubs-
 * Dan Middleton as Clover-
 * Zach Woods as Rudolph Holliday

Development
In February 4, 2028, Phil Lord, the co-developer of the Indie Initiative, said at the San Diego Comic Con said they had thoughts of adapting Toby Fox's sister game Deltarune, which served as the "spiritual successor" to Undertale. Lord and Christopher Miller said to The Verge that the film would be a bit more darker than the previous installments and also will be having full animated sequences, due to the nature of the game being edgier than Undertale. Shortly after, the film were officially announced by Sony on March 28.

The producers hired 3 directors to work on the movie, due to the movie having both live action and animated sequences. First, they hired Taika Waititi on April 21, who had previously directed Hunt for The Wilderpeople and Thor: Ragnarok, who was going to direct all the live action sequences. Then, Joaquim Dos Santos, the director of Voltron: Legendary Defender and another Sony Pictures Animation movie, Into The Spiderverse 2, was hired to direct the animated sequences the next month. And finally, Madeline Sharafian, the director of the Pixar SparkShort Burrow, was announced to be the co-director.

Writing
By March 19, Matt Braly, an animator and writer couple who is best known for making Amphibia, were in talks to write the script based on

Casting
Jack Dylan Grazer was cast as Kris in June, along with Dave Franco as the False Knight in November 24. A month later, Michael Cera and Liam Neeson joined the cast as both Lancer and King. That October, it was announced that Hailee Steinfeld and Omar Sy had been cast for Susie and Rouls Kaard, respectively. It was also announced that Norman Reedus, who had Gaster in Undertale: Genocide would reprise his role in the movie.

In January 4 2032, Deadline Hollywood confirmed more casting, including Elijah Wood playing Ralsei, Sterling K. Brown as Seam, Alan Tudyk as Jevil, and Robert Sheehan as Birdly. A month later, more actors from the first and second movies, like Jessica Chastain and Ali Wong would be reprising their roles for the movie. Ryan Potter as the Asriel of this movie and Brenda Song as Noelle was announced later on, as well as DanTDM as a respective cameo.

Filming
Filming began to take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in May 28, especially in the Point Grey Secondary School for the school in the movie. It switched to Los Angeles later on. Filming wrapped up on November 3.

Animation
Unlike the previous movies, Blur Studio, who did all the animation for the movie, wasn't involved, although, Tim Miller stayed as a executive producer. Instead, the animation was split into two groups: MPC Films, who did the animation for Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, The Lion King, and the Godzilla movies, and Sony Pictures Imageworks. MPC did all the live action sequences for the film, with Joel MacDonald and Laura Muro Javaloyes supervising it. Imageworks, however, was to create all the animated sequences with it's animation director Molly Knox Osterag leading it.