Let’s ger ready toRumble! Paramount+ just released the trailer for the animated feature filmRumble, from Paramount Animation. The film centers on the world of monster wrestling and celebrates moving to your own groove and paving your own unique path to success. What’s going to be the key ingredient to our underdog winning the prized belt? Dancing his monster buns off, that’s what!
The film features an all-star voice cast includingWill Arnett(The Lego Batman Movie,Arrested Development), Geraldine Viswanathan (Blockers,Emo the Musical), Terry Crews (Idiocracy,The Expendables), Stephen A. Smith(I Think I Love My Wife,Almost Christmas), Jimmy Tatro (American Vandal,22 Jump Street), Tony Danza (Who’s the Boss,Don Jon) , Susan Kelechi Watson (This Is Us,A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Tony Shalhoub (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,Monk) Bridget Everett (Sex and the City,Trainwreck), Greta Lee (Money Monster,St. Vincent), Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation,Sonic the Hedgehog) Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,WWE Smackdown!), Becky Lynch (WWE Smackdown!, WWE NXT), Michael Buffer (You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,Creed) and Charles Barkley (He Got Game,Space Jam).
“We are thrilled to build on our recent success with family-friendly films and bring Rumble’s entertaining and inspiring underdog story toParamount+this holiday season,” said Tanya Giles, Chief Programming Officer, ViacomCBS Streaming.Rumblewas produced by Paramount Animation in association with WWE Studios, and with production companies, Reel FX and Walden Media.
The official synopsis reads, “In a world wheremonster wrestling is a global sportand monsters are superstar athletes, Rumble shows teenage Winnie seeking to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.” Based on the graphic novel ‘Monster on theHill’ by Rob Harrell,Rumbleis directed by Hamish Grieve, screenplay by Hamish Grieve and Matt Lieberman and produced by Brad Booker and Mark Bakshi. Executive producers are Steve O’Brien, Chuck Peil, Frank Smith, Naia Cucukov, Jeff Fierson, Susan Levison and Richard Lowell.
Will Arnett is playing out underdog monster, Steve, because, of course he is. That signature voice has been voicing some of our favorite animated characters in films and tv shows likeBoJack Horseman,The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part,Teen Titans GO! To the Movies,The Magic School Bus Rides Again,The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature,Despicable Me,the list goes on. He’s even the voice for those tough GMC trucks. We love that man’s voice! Speaking of his extensive voice acting, Arnett says, “I am having a great time doing voice work. I have found a niche. Maybe I should only do animated stuff from now on. Myabe theArrested Developmentmovie should be animated. I bet more people would have watched our show if it was animated. They’d have gotten confused and thought it was for their kids. That’s a huge audience. Or maybe I shouldn’t be that excited about it. Maybe they just give me the work so my face won’t be on screen.” He kids!
Rumblewill premiere exclusively on Paramount+ on Wednesday, December 15.
