Freida Pinto Boards Animated Series ‘Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond’ From Submarine Sublime, Rebel Maverick & Writer Michael Ryan
10.05.2024 - 16:53
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EXCLUSIVE: Freida Pinto and her Freeboard Films Entertainment label have boarded Kiranmala & the Kingdom Beyond, the animated kids TV show we first told you about earlier this year.
Pinto will voice the Moon Maiden, the biological mother to the lead character, Kiranmala, and will executive produce the series alongside her producing partner Emily Verellen Strom through their Freeboard Films banner.
The story follows a New Jersey 12-year-old girl who discovers she might be a real Indian princess as she is swept into a fantastical world of magic, winged horses, moving maps and annoying, talking birds and forced to fight demons and solve riddle to find her lost parents and save the world.
Published by Scholastic, Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond debuted in 2018 with The Serpent’s Secret. It won several book awards, with Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond: Game of Stars following in 2019 and entering the New York Times bestseller list. A third book, Kiranmala & The Kingdom Beyond: The Chaos Curse, published in 2020, while a spin-off series, Force of Fire, published a year and a third trilogy, The Secrets of the Sky, launched in July last year. The first trilogy book series will be the focus of the animated series.
As we previously reported, also attached to the project are Undone maker Submarine Sublime (aka the Netherlands-based Submarine), and creative house Rebel Maverick. It’s penned by veteran animation writer and Emmy winner Michael Ryan (cooby-Doo and Guess Who?, Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny) and Sayantani DasGupta, who wrote the book on which the series is based.
Ryan and DasGupta will write the pilot with Ryan serving as showrunner. Submarine Sublime’s co-founder Bruno Felix and development head Phil Molloy will