EXCLUSIVE: Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows) has joined two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn in See-Saw Films feature drama One Life, we can reveal.
12.08.2022 - 23:39 / variety.com
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“Phineas and Ferb” co-creator Dan Povenmire was absent-mindedly doodling on a scrap of paper during a meeting when he realized he had sketched his way into his next TV show: It was a hamster, in a superhero outfit.“It just came from my subconscious somewhere,” he told Variety. “I liked it and I set it aside and took a picture of it. I brought it home, and then I pitched a bunch of ideas for a show for it to my daughter when I was tucking her in one night.
I was able to come up with a whole bunch of ideas for it right away.”Povenmire had just wrapped Disney+’s “Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe,” and was ready to pitch something new. So while on vacation, he created the pilot that would become his latest series, “Hamster and Gretel,” which premieres Friday on Disney Channel (9:35 p.m. ET) and Disney XD (10 p.m.
ET). In the series, teenage Kevin is driving his younger sister Gretel in the family van when aliens show up and grant the duo superpowers. Except Kevin doesn’t get the powers: Gretel’s pet hamster does.
That bit was inspired by the cult classic 1980s TV series “The Greatest American Hero.” “That’s sort of a spiritual grandfather of this show,” Povenmire said. “I love the fact that when he got the superhero powers [in ‘Greatest American Hero’], he loses the instruction manual. So he doesn’t know all the things he can do and sometimes things just happen to him.
EXCLUSIVE: Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows) has joined two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn in See-Saw Films feature drama One Life, we can reveal.
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