Netflix has debuted the trailer for his or her newest animated effort, “Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld,” a supernatural motion sequence starring Ali Wong (Birds of Prey, “Paper Women”).
“Jentry Chau vs. The Underwold” premieres on Netflix on December 5, 2024.
Wong govt produces the 13-episode sequence, from first-time show-runner Echo Wu, alongside Aron Eli Coleite (“Locke & Key”).
The sequence follows “Jentry Chau (voiced by Wong), a Chinese language-American teen residing in a small Texas city, who finds out a demon king is looking her for the supernatural powers she’s been working her complete life to repress. With the assistance of her weapons professional great-aunt and a millennia-old jiangshi (Chinese language hopping vampire), Jentry should now battle a whole underworld’s value of monsters whereas balancing the horrors of highschool.”
Lori Tan Chinn voices Jentry’s aunt Gugu and Bowen Yang as Jentry’s sidekick, Ed. Further solid consists of Lucy Liu, Jimmy O. Yang, Sheng Wang, A.J. Beckles, and Woosung Kim.
“Typically discovering your self-identity is coming face-to-face with your personal demons,” Wu advised Tudum about Jentry Chau. “There are totally different layers to what meaning. [It] rings fairly true in Jentry. [She’s] making an attempt to determine what these powers imply to her. Are they a part of her? Are they cursing her? You see this character making an attempt to determine who she is.”
Wu added, “I wished this present to really feel tremendous grounded. I feel it’s refreshing in animation when you will have a sequence that isn’t about this magical realm. I wished it to really feel real and the characters to be in our world.”
Titmouse serves because the animation studio for the 2D animated sequence, with Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio, and Ben Kalina additionally appearing as Govt Producers.
Watch the brand new trailer under to satisfy Jentry Chau, and prepare to this sequence to reach early subsequent month.
