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The series centers around two brothers, Wirt and Greg ([[Elijah Wood]] and Collin Dean respectively), who become lost in a strange |
The series centers around two brothers, Wirt and Greg ([[Elijah Wood]] and Collin Dean respectively), who become lost in a strange forest called the Unknown. In order to find their way home, the two must travel across the forest, adrift in time, with the help of the wise, elderly Woodsman ([[Christopher Lloyd]]) and Beatrice ([[Melanie Lynskey]]), an irritable [[bluebird]] who travels with the boys in order to undo a curse that has affected her whole family.<ref name="Hersh 2014a" /> |
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Wirt, the elder brother, is self-absorbed and would rather keep to himself than to have to make a decision. His two passions are the [[clarinet]] and poetry, but he keeps this private out of fear of being mocked. On the other hand, Greg, the younger brother, is all about play and being carefree, much to Wirt's chagrin and the danger of himself and others. Greg carries a frog ([[Jack Jones (singer)|Jack Jones]]), whose name is undetermined and can communicate only through singing. Stalking the main cast is the Beast ([[Samuel Ramey]]), an ancient creature who leads lost souls astray until they give up and turn into "Edelwood trees".<ref name="Hersh 2014b" /> |
Wirt, the elder brother, is self-absorbed and would rather keep to himself than to have to make a decision. His two passions are the [[clarinet]] and poetry, but he keeps this private out of fear of being mocked. On the other hand, Greg, the younger brother, is all about play and being carefree, much to Wirt's chagrin and the danger of himself and others. Greg carries a frog ([[Jack Jones (singer)|Jack Jones]]), whose name is undetermined and can communicate only through singing. Stalking the main cast is the Beast ([[Samuel Ramey]]), an ancient creature who leads lost souls astray until they give up and turn into "Edelwood trees".<ref name="Hersh 2014b" /> |
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| ShortSummary= Wirt and Greg end up lost in the forest on the way home and are warned by an old man who tells them a monster lurks the forest. Taking them to his oil mill, Wirt and Greg decide to stay for the night but problems rise when the younger brother leaves a trail of candy (a nod to Hansel & Gretel) that a wolf like beast follows. Wirt and Greg struggle to stay alive while evading the beast. They ultimately send the monster into the water turning it into a dog. However, they end up destroying the mill to the old mans anger. He gives the brothers a set of directions home but in chapter 2 it was clear the old man gave them wrong directions to get back at them. |
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| ShortSummary= Beatrice (a bluebird who can speak) ends up joining the brothers after they help her out of a bush she was tangled in. The trio arrive in a strange town, Pottsfield, that looks deserted but all is not as it seems as the group looks around. The town is holding their annual harvest |
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| ShortSummary= Wirt and Greg visit a tavern to ask for directions to Adelaide's house. Beatrice wanders off at the sound of the Woodsman chopping trees. The tavern people warn the brothers about the beast and reveal that the creature turns people into trees of oil to burn in his lantern. Wirt and Greg speculate that the Woodsman might be the beast. Wirt steals a horse and finds Beatrice unconscious next to the Woodsman, believing his speculations, Wirt and Greg save Beatrice. Meanwhile the beast talks to the Woodsman, and reveals that the Woodsman's daughter's flame of life is in the lantern. The beast asks where the brothers are heading to. |
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| Over the Garden Wall | |
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| Created by | Patrick McHale |
| Based on | Tome of the Unknown (2013) |
| Written by | Patrick McHale Amalia Levari Tom Herpich Cole Sanchez Bert Youn |
| Directed by | Nick Cross |
| Creative director | Nate Cash |
| Voices of | |
| Composer | The Blasting Company |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Patrick McHale |
| Producer | Pernelle Hayes |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Production company | Cartoon Network Studios |
| Original release | |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Release | November 3, 2014 – present |
Over the Garden Wall is an American animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network. The series centers around two brothers who travel across a strange forest in order to find their way home. The show is based on McHale's animated short film, Tome of the Unknown, which was produced as part of Cartoon Network Studios' shorts development program.
The show marks the first miniseries on the network, who commenced its production in March 2014. McHale first envisioned the show in 2004, and pitched it to the network in 2006. After working on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Adventure Time, the network expressed interest in McHale pitching a pilot to themselves, which became the catalyst for Garden Wall. The show features Elijah Wood and Collin Dean as the protagonists, and Melanie Lynskey as a bluebird named Beatrice. The show premiered on November 3, 2014 over five consecutive nights.
Plot
The series centers around two brothers, Wirt and Greg (Elijah Wood and Collin Dean respectively), who become lost in a strange forest called the Unknown. In order to find their way home, the two must travel across the forest, adrift in time, with the help of the wise, elderly Woodsman (Christopher Lloyd) and Beatrice (Melanie Lynskey), an irritable bluebird who travels with the boys in order to undo a curse that has affected her whole family.[1]
Wirt, the elder brother, is self-absorbed and would rather keep to himself than to have to make a decision. His two passions are the clarinet and poetry, but he keeps this private out of fear of being mocked. On the other hand, Greg, the younger brother, is all about play and being carefree, much to Wirt's chagrin and the danger of himself and others. Greg carries a frog (Jack Jones), whose name is undetermined and can communicate only through singing. Stalking the main cast is the Beast (Samuel Ramey), an ancient creature who leads lost souls astray until they give up and turn into "Edelwood trees".[2]
Production
Production for Over the Garden Wall commenced in March 2014. It marks the first miniseries on the network, with an order of ten episodes for the first season.[3] Created by Patrick McHale, a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts,[4] the show is based on the animated short film Tome of the Unknown, which he wrote and directed for Cartoon Network Studios as part of their shorts development program.[3]
The show was first envisioned in 2004 with a scarier and more adventure-based storyline. Before working as a storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, McHale pitched Garden Wall in 2006. He saw it as "a possible Halloween special", but had trouble adapting the premise with a larger story arc.[4] After his work for Flapjack, McHale moved on to Adventure Time, where he served as creative director, and subsequently as a writer. The network later asked him if he saw interest in developing a pilot, which led to him returning to his pitch, polishing it and pitching it again to the network.[5]: 29 They ultimately settled upon the miniseries format, as McHale felt that it would lead to "something that felt higher quality than what we could do with a regular series".[4]
The show features Wood (reprising his role from the short), Lynskey and Dean as the main voice cast. It has been characterized as a "comedy-fantasy" series;[3] in an interview dated October 2014, McHale stated that, while it mostly adheres to this genre, there would be some frightening moments which try to be "an experience for the audience".[4] Despite this, he and his crew tried to maintain a balance with "other episodes that are just light and funny".[6]: 24 The same interview also has McHale depict his inspirations for the show, including children's literature of the 19th century, early 20th-century American music and folk art in general. Additionally, McHale sought inspiration from Gustave Doré and "Alice Comedies" for the show's "layouts".[4] Likewise for its music, McHale shared that it would contain various styles, including "classic American, opera singing", but that it would not contain much of any Broadway qualities.[4]
Meanwhile, Nick Cross served as art director and Nate Cash as supervising director; both worked with McHale alongside storyboard artists located in New York and Chicago. This distance proved difficult for McHale, who found it "particularly daunting considering the idiosyncratic nature of the production".[4]
Broadcast and reception
McHale's original short, Tome of the Unknown, was screened at the 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where McHale earned the Bruce Corwin Award for best animated short film.[7] Meanwhile, at the 2013 Ottawa International Animation Festival, it received an honorable mention.[8]
At the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International, a preview of the show was shown along with various panels for other shows on the network.[9] It was also previewed at the 2014 New York Comic Con, which Hale and the main cast attended.[10] The show will make its premiere on November 3, 2014 on Cartoon Network, and will run over five consecutive nights.[11] Preceding its premiere, Patrick Kevin Day of the Los Angeles Times called it "funny, creepy" and, from the premise, "not as simple as it sounds".[4] In TV Guide and also before the premiere, Megan Walsh-Boyle felt that the show's fictional universe "sounds like a world worth getting lost in".[6]: 24
Comic book adaptation
A comic book adaptation of the show was announced in October 2014. Produced by KaBoom!, an imprint of Boom! Studios, the comic is set for release on November 5, 2014. The comic will be supervised by McHale and is produced as an oversized special.[12]
Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| Pilot | 1 | November 3, 2013 | ||
| 1 | 10 | November 3, 2014 | November 7, 2014 | |
Pilot (2013)
| No. | Title | Written and directed by | Release date | |
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| Pilot | "Tome of the Unknown" | Patrick McHale | November 3, 2013 | |
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Season 1 (2014)
| No. | Title | Written and storyboarded by | Story by | Original air date[13] | U.S. viewers (in millions) | |
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| 1 | "The Old Grist Mill" | Steve Wolfhard, Natasha Allegri, and Zac Gorman | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 3, 2014 | TBA | |
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Wirt and Greg end up lost in the forest on the way home and are warned by an old man who tells them a monster lurks the forest. Taking them to his oil mill, Wirt and Greg decide to stay for the night but problems rise when the younger brother leaves a trail of candy (a nod to Hansel & Gretel) that a wolf like beast follows. Wirt and Greg struggle to stay alive while evading the beast. They ultimately send the monster into the water turning it into a dog. However, they end up destroying the mill to the old mans anger. He gives the brothers a set of directions home but in chapter 2 it was clear the old man gave them wrong directions to get back at them. | ||||||
| 2 | "Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee" | Bert Youn, Aaron Renier, and Patrick McHale | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 3, 2014 | TBA | |
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Beatrice (a bluebird who can speak) ends up joining the brothers after they help her out of a bush she was tangled in. The trio arrive in a strange town, Pottsfield, that looks deserted but all is not as it seems as the group looks around. The town is holding their annual harvest festival. The Pottsfield Chamber of Commerce, lead by Enoch a giant pumpkin head, finds the trio guilty of trespassing, destruction of property, and disturbing the peace. They are sentenced to a few hours of manual labor. | ||||||
| 3 | "Schooltown Follies" | Jim Campbell and Laura Park | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 4, 2014 | TBA | |
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| 4 | "Songs of the Dark Lantern" | Pendleton Ward, Bert Youn, and Steve McLeod | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 4, 2014 | TBA | |
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Wirt and Greg visit a tavern to ask for directions to Adelaide's house. Beatrice wanders off at the sound of the Woodsman chopping trees. The tavern people warn the brothers about the beast and reveal that the creature turns people into trees of oil to burn in his lantern. Wirt and Greg speculate that the Woodsman might be the beast. Wirt steals a horse and finds Beatrice unconscious next to the Woodsman, believing his speculations, Wirt and Greg save Beatrice. Meanwhile the beast talks to the Woodsman, and reveals that the Woodsman's daughter's flame of life is in the lantern. The beast asks where the brothers are heading to. | ||||||
| 5 | "Mad Love" | Natasha Allegri and Zac Gorman | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 5, 2014 | TBA | |
| 6 | "Lullaby in Frogland" | Bert Youn and Nick Edwards | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 5, 2014 | TBA | |
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Greg looks for a ghost while Wirt is figuring out how to get home. Later, Beatrice tries to help Wirt and Greg by sacrificing herself to be a worker for an old lady, rather than letting the old woman take the two boys. | ||||||
| 7 | "The Ringing of the Bell" | Patrick McHale, Bert Youn, and Tom Herpich | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 6, 2014 | TBA | |
| 8 | "Babes in the Woods" | Mark Bodnar, Jim Campbell, and Bert Youn | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 6, 2014 | TBA | |
| 9 | "Into the Unknown" | Cole Sanchez, Vi Nguyen, and Zac Gorman | Cole Sanchez, Bert Youn, Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 7, 2014 | TBA | |
| 10 | "The Unknown" | Natasha Allegri, Jim Campbell, and Tom Herpich | Amalia Levari, Tom Herpich, and Patrick McHale | November 7, 2014 | TBA | |
References
- ^ Hersh, Farrah (September 3, 2014). "Over the Garden Wall – About". Cartoon Network. Turner Broadcasting System. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) (password-protected) - ^ Hersh, Farrah (September 3, 2014). "Over the Garden Wall – Characters". Cartoon Network. Turner Broadcasting System. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) (password-protected) - ^ a b c Andreeva, Nellie (March 7, 2014). "Cartoon Network Orders Over the Garden Wall as First Miniseries". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e f g h Day, Patrick Kevin (October 5, 2014). "Lost in an animator's imagination". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Publishing. p. D12.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ McLean, Thomas J. (October 2014). "Rising Stars of Animation". Animation Magazine: 28–31. ISSN 1041-617X. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Walsh-Boyle, Megan (September 1–14, 2014). "Toon In". TV Guide. OpenGate Capital: 24–25. ISSN 0039-8543.
- ^ "2014 Award Winning Films Announced". Santa Barbara International Film Festival. February 9, 2014. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Zahed, Ramin (September 22, 2013). "Tito on Ice, Lonely Bones Win Ottawa's Top Honors". Animation Magazine. ISSN 1041-617X. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Milligan, Mercedes (July 28, 2014). "Cartoon Network Teases Over the Garden Wall". Animation Magazine. ISSN 1041-617X. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Milligan, Mercedes (September 22, 2014). "Cartoon Network Plans Surprise-Packed NYCC Panel". Animation Magazine. ISSN 1041-617X. Archived from the original on October 13, 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Weinstein, Shelli (September 30, 2014). "Cartoon Network Sets Premiere for Miniseries Over the Garden Wall". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ McLean, Thomas J. (October 10, 2014). "Roundup: Rig a Zombie, Learn from Stoopid Buddies". Animation Magazine. ISSN 1041-617X. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ McHale, Patrick (September 29, 2014). "(untitled)". Twitter. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
