The Donkey Who Would Be King

The Donkey Who Would Be King (Spanish:  El burro quién sería rey) is an upcoming Mexican computer-animated comedy film written, produced and directed by Zack Isaac, based on the 2018 Pakistani animated film The Donkey King created by Aziz Jindani. It is scheduled to be theatrically released in Mexico by Videocine.￼

Synopsis
The royalty of Santa Fiorella, has decided to retire and together with his counselor Mrs. Jimena decides to call elections. Jaime, a happy and humble donkey accidentally ends up being the most popular candidate, so he must face Leonardo, his legitimate successor, however, what nobody knows is that Mrs. Jimena is drawing up a Machiavellian plan to take the throne herself.

Voice cast (In Mexican version and Spanish dub)

 * Zack Isaac as Jaime Méndez, a washer-donkey becomes a King.
 * Víctor Isaac as Pedro Méndez, the uncle of Jaime.
 * Ninel Conde as Mrs. Jimena, a fox.
 * Sergio Sendel as King Leoncio, a lion king.
 * Joel Isaac as José María Méndez, the father of Jaime.
 * Bruno Bichir as Prince Leonardo, the son of the king Leoncio.
 * Jesse Conde as Breaking News, a monkey.
 * Alan Estrada as Rancho, a chamelon.
 * Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste as Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a wolf version himself.
 * Adal Ramones as Jorge, a monkey.
 * Joaquín Cosío as Sergio Camarada, a bear.
 * Ale Müller as Jaime's girlfriend
 * Fernando Arjona as Mr. Pascual, a tiger.
 * Ricardo Arnaiz as Paco, a zebra.

English dubbed version

 * James McAvoy as Jaime Méndez
 * Colin Firth as Pedro Méndez
 * Jennifer Aniston as Mrs. Jimena
 * Danny Glover as King Leoncio
 * Hugh Jackman as José María Méndez
 * Donald Glover as Prince Leonardo
 * Carlos Alazraqui as Breaking News
 * Conrad Vernon as Rancho
 * Rob Schneider as Andrés Manuel López Obrador
 * Jesse Eisenberg as Jorge
 * Seth MacFarlane as Sergio Camarada
 * Emily Blunt as Jaime's girlfriend
 * Simon Wells as Mr. Pascual
 * Kirk DeMicco as Paco

Production
In March 2021, the look of the animated film was released, written, produced and directed by Zack Isaac, distributed and produced by Little Witch Pictures and Videocine. Isaac revealed that he had the idea of the film since 2017, and had started working on the adult animated film and children's animated television series in while working on The Cat in the Middle and Château Adventures both based on the Turkish comic strip series Kötü Kedi Şerafettin created by Bülent Üstün and Italian children's book series Trulli Tales created by Maria Elena and Fiorella Congedo. In 2020, Isaac founded Little Witch Pictures, an animation studio based in Cancún, Quintana Roo, the film was animated on Autodesk Maya.

Home video
The Donkey Who Would Be King had a world television premiere on 3 days of summer vacation, in March 2022 on Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in Mexico and Universal Home Entertainment in international. It was the most watched television premiere in Golden.

Streaming service
It was made available for streaming on Netflix Premier Access.

Controversy
A legal petition was made that demanded a ban on the film due to its title song making fun of the king caste. However, this was dismissed by Gobierno del Estado de Quintana Roo. Some other political controversies related to resemblance of lead role with president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and videos related to the film also appeared, which Televisa and Little Witch Pictures clarified legally.