Aardman, CITV sets noteworthy voice cast for "Lloyd of the Flies"

Aardman, CITV sets noteworthy voice cast for "Lloyd of the Flies"


Aardman and CITV Announce Voice Cast for Animation Studio's Next CGI Comedy Series, Lloyd of the Flies, in production at Aardman and airing on CITV in the fall of 2022.

Tom Rosenthal (Friday night dinner, plebs) will voice Lloyd, a 453-year-old housefly and middle child with a lot to prove. With his best friend Abacus Woodlouse, little sister PB and the eccentric Cornea Butterfly at his side, Lloyd is ready for a misadventure in an entomology family sitcom.

“Despite the fact that I believe Lloyd of the Flies for being a work of genius and I'm thrilled to bring these fantastic stories to life, the amount of people who told me I actually sound like a fly started to hurt me, ”Rosenthal said.

Lloyd's best friend, Abacus, will be voiced by Alex lawther (The end of the fucking world, Black Mirror), while Lauren Patel (Everyone's talking about Jamie) will assume the role of PB. Teresa Gallagher Cornea Butterfly will play, with Callum Scott Howells (It's a shame) giving voice to Lloyd's nemesis Berry.

Pearl Mackie e Rob Rack Straw provide the voices of the parents of Lloyd, Gena and Malcolm. To complete the cast there are Ayesha Antoine, voicing Julie and Libby, and Marcel McCalla, who plays ampersand and Bob.

Lloyd of the Flies was created and directed by Matthew Walker (episode director, Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom Farm), winner of a Jury Prize at the Aspen Shortsfest, Special Jury Mention in Clermont-Ferrand for his film John and Karen and best graduate film in Annecy 2006 for Astronauts. He is joined by co-director and voice director Jane Davies, who has over 25 years of experience in animation and long-running series directing. Aardman's Sarah Cox will serve as Executive Creative Director.

Seamus Malone (Arthur Christmas, Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Bread and Death) is director of animation, with Tom Parkinson (Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom Farm) in the role of script / story advisor. The series editor is Victoria Stevens (Shaun, the sheep's life: Farmageddon). The writing team includes Anna Leong Brophy, Alex Collier, Tasha Dhanraj, Isabel Fay, Mark Oswin and Jen Upton. Black Sheep's Andrew Barnett Jones and Ciaran Murtagh are writing the series.

Using a mix of computer animation and 2D techniques, Lloyd of the Flies is the first CGI series produced entirely in-house at Aardman's headquarters studio in Bristol.

The new series is the flagship project of the government-funded Young Audiences Content Fund (YACF), which is managed by the BFI and supports the creation of distinctive, high-quality content for audiences up to 18 years old. The Fund offers production funding for projects that have obtained a broadcast commitment from a UK public service broadcaster to make the program available to the UK public on a free access regulated service of Ofcom. More information at www.bfi.org.uk/yacf.

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