The Troll dolls and their big, rainbow coloured hair are headed to the silver screen.
Grammy and Emmy Award winner Justin Timberlake has been cast in DreamWorks Animation’s musical-comedy Trolls, alongside Anna Kendrick.
Movies based on toy lines and child friendly, cute characters have become increasingly prevalent in the last decade. Cinema audiences have had to suffer lacklustre, patronising, dull cutesy-cutesy adaptations of THE SMURFS and ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS. The experiences leaving them dazed and confused, as to why they had ever willingly endured such massive piles of sugar-coated shite, when they could have sat at home watching Bargain Hunt.
The TROLLS’ cinematic debut will follow Princess Poppy and Branch as they embark on an epic, hair-raising adventure to uncover the origin of their gravity-defying weaves and colourful names, which will test both their strength and ability to endure nonsensical random musical numbers in the quest to reveal who they really are.
Troll dolls were originally created in 1959, by 20th Century Geppetto, Thomas Dam. The dolls became one of the United States’ most popular toys in the 1960s, before fading into obscurity and seeing brief resurgences in popularity in the 1970s and 1990s. In the latter decade a number of video games and direct-to-video features were based on the dolls. The early 21st Century saw the dolls suffer an unpopular too-cool-for-school rebranding as Trollz.
The duo who helmed Shrek Forever After, Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn once again direct a movie no one is crying out for.
TROLLSÂ is set to be released November 4th, 2016.
