Rich Ting and Darren Barnet join the voice actors of the Netflix animated film – Variety Show

2021-11-24 03:54:25 By : Mr. Eason Guan

Rich Ting ("Warriors"), Darren Barnet ("I Never Been"), and Keiko Agena ("Better Call Saul") have been appointed as voice actors for the English dubbing of Netflix's "Top of the Gods", "from Caesar Award-winning filmmaker Patrick Imbert.

Based on Taniguchi’s critically acclaimed manga and Yumekura Baku’s novel, "Top of the Gods" raises the question, "George Mallory and his companion Andrew Owen were among the first batch on June 8, 1924. Are the people who climbed Everest? Only the small Vestpocket Kodak camera they carry with them can reveal the truth."

"Top of the Gods" was staged in Kathmandu 70 years after Mallory and Irving's journey, when a young Japanese journalist named Makoto Fukamachi (Barnet) recognized the camera in the hands of the mysterious Masaharu Habe (Ting) , An excluded climber is believed to have been missing for many years. As the plot progresses, Fukamachi enters a world obsessed with climbers on the journey to the top of the gods.

Performing alongside Ting, Barnet and Agena are Ray Yamamoto as Buntaro, Gedde Watanabe ("Sixteen Candles") as the editor of the magazine, Clyde Kusatsu ("Road to Heaven") as the Sherpa, and Chris Naoki Lee (" Horror") as Inoue and Paul in the interior as Ito.

"Top of the Gods" is directed by Imbert (who won the Caesar Award for "The Big Bad Fox and Other Stories") and made its debut at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in French, the filmmaker's native language. The screenwriters of this animated film are considered to be Jean-Charles Ostorero (cooperation), Imbert (adaptation, dialogue, script) and Magali Pouzol (adaptation, dialogue, script), Ostorero also serves as producer, and Didier Brunner ("Three Powers") "Belleville"), Damien Brenner ("Wolfwalker"), Stephen Rowlandz ("Family Bread"). Composed by Amine Bouhafa.

"The Peak of the Gods" will be released in theaters on November 24, and will be broadcast globally on the platform starting on November 30, with the exception of France, Belgium, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and China.

This animated film is the latest in Netflix’s growing list of original animated feature films, including Oscar-nominated "Klaus", Chris Pien’s "Willoughby Family", and Oscar-nominated Glenn Keane's "Flying over the Moon" and "Mitchell and the Machine." "

The anchor’s upcoming projects include next month’s comedy "Back to the Inland", Richard Linklater’s "Apollo 10 ½: Childhood in the Space Age", and Gilmour Del Toro’s "Pino Cao"; Lupita Nyong'o's "Sulwe" and "Chicken Run"'s "Aardman" sequel.

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