Gulliver Returns movie storyline. World traveler and adventurer Gulliver is invited to return to Lilliput, the town he previously saved from the enemy fleet of the neighboring Blefuscu. When he arrives, he only finds indignation, panic and a hopeless crowd, as the King of Lilliput made his people believe that the legendary Giant Gulliver was returning.
Instead, they discover an ordinary man, when the whole town had been getting ready and building accommodation to welcome a giant. Disappointed, the King orders Gulliver’s execution. Meanwhile, the invincible Blefuscu armada is at the gates of the city and threatening again.
Gulliver Returns is a 2021 animated comedy film produced by 95 Animation Studio and Gulliver Films. Based on an original idea by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Borys and Serhiy Shefir, and Andriy Yakovlev, it is directed by Ilya Maksimov, with a screenplay by Michael Ryan. The film is a loose adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.
A team consisting of 35 Ukrainian animators and 30 foreign animators (from countries such as Germany, Brazil, United States, Canada and Australia) worked on the creation of the animated film, under the supervision of American animator Tony Bonilla.
The film premiered at the 2021 Shanghai International Film Festival on June 18, 2021 and was later released in Ukraine on August 19, 2021. In 2019, the international rights to the film were acquired by the French-Chinese company All Rights Entertainment, which subsequently organized the screening of the project at the American Film Market (in 2019) and the European Film Market (in 2021).
Gulliver Returns (2021)
Directed by: Ilya Maksimov
Starring: Wayne Grayson, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, Scottie Ray, Billy Bob Thompson, Marc Thompson, HD Quinn, Yelisaveta Zinovenko, Tom Wayland as Pablo, Samuel Weintraub
Screenplay by: Michael Ryan
Film Editing by: Alexandr Synko
Art Direction by: Sergei Andrievskii, Serhiy Mohylnyy
Visual Effects by: Oleksandr Bielov, Alexandr Bilyak
Music by: Dmytro Shurov, Yuriy Melnychuk, Andriy Golovan
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: All Rights Entertainment (international)
Release Date: June 18, 2021 (SIFF), August 19, 2021 (Ukraine)
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