Henry Golding (“The Gentlemen,” “A Simple Favor,” “Crazy Rich Asians”) has scored the lead role in “The Tiger’s Apprentice” at Paramount Animation. Sandra Rabins and Jane Startz are producing.
An adaptation of the best-selling 2003 children’s book, the project hails from former Pixar animator Carlos Baena (“Toy Story 3,” “Wall-E”) who will make make his feature directing debut.
The story follows a boy in San Francisco who meets a shape-shifting talking tiger named Mr. Hu and under his tutelage and protection is introduced into a magical world that includes an ancient phoenix, a dragon and a clan of evil-doers.
Golding will voice the tiger in his first voice acting gig. David Magee, Harry Cripps and Kyle Jarrow worked on the script, which adapts the first book in the trilogy which is steeped in the mythology of the Chinese Zodiac.
The project already has a February 11th 2022 release date and marks Golding’s second film with Paramount having just worked on the “G.I. Joe” reboot “Snake Eyes” for them – that film is still slated for this October though will likely be delayed.
Source: Heat Vision
