Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler on Their Upcoming BBC Adaptation of ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’
on Christmas Day in the U.K., “The Smeds and The Smoos” is the tenth in a series of screen adaptations based on books by iconic children’s publishing duo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Starring the voices of “Bridgerton’s” Adjoa Andoh and comedian Bill Bailey, the film was produced by long-time Donaldson/Scheffler collaboratorsThe 30-minute adaptation tells the story of two adorable aliens, Bill and Janet, who come from warring clans.
As for the clans’ names – Smeds and Smoos – Donaldson says there’s no more to it than they’re good rhyming words. “So many things that rhyme with blue,” she says pragmatically at a press event during a screening for the film. “Blue’s a brilliant word for rhyming. And red’s not too bad. They couldn’t really be the Yellows and Purples.
While “The Gruffalo” was a combination of stop-motion sets and CGI characters, the later films are entirely CGI. “But we’ve worked very hard at keeping the aesthetic so all the stories feel part of the same universe, so you can watch any two together and it not feel like there’s an interruption,” explains Barney Goodland, a producer at Magic Light.
Donaldson and Scheffler are surprisingly hands-off when it comes to the adaptations, although everything is run past them for approval, starting with the screenplay. “When we go from script we show them the animatic, and then we show them parts of the animation. So they’re involved, but we first work on the story ourselves, and then have the discussion with them,” says Goodman of the process.
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