“Mars Specific” is sort of right here.
The brand new French animated function is being launched domestically by GKids, in each the unique French model and a powerful English dub. Forward of the discharge, we’re thrilled to debut a brand new behind-the-scenes clip the place director Jérémie Périn discusses the affect of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 masterpiece “RoboCop” on the brand new film. You may watch Périn communicate within the video above.
“We wished to have a pair, female and male, and doing that with none romance between them, simply friendship. It’s uncommon in fiction. And we wished to strive that. We constructed Carlos, in a approach, the opposite to Alex Murphy in ‘RoboCop,’” Périn stated within the clip. “There are some similarities – RoboCop and Carlos have a historical past with their famil,y however in the course of the film, his arc is totally different. RoboCop, in the long run, is discovering his personal humanity. In ‘Mars Specific,’ he’s accepting his synthetic id as a brand new way of life.”
“Mars Specific” follows a non-public investigator named Aline Ruby (voiced by Léa Drucker) and her android companion, the aforementioned Carlos Rivera (Daniel Njo Lobé) as they examine the disappearance of two younger girls on Mars. The film, which premiered at Cannes final 12 months and performed on the Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant shortly after, is gorgeously animated.
It imagines a 23rd century as designed fully by Ron Cobb, with huge chunky spaceships recurrently touring between Mars and Earth. It’s a politically fraught future, as effectively, following a human bloodbath by the hands of AI. (Ruby was there.) A hardboiled detective story in addition to a cautionary sci-fi fable, “Mars Specific” does all of it.
“Mars Specific,” in each its authentic French and in an English dub, will likely be launched by GKids this Friday, Might 3.
