How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Dr. Seuss' The Grinch is an upcoming Chinese-Hong Kong-American-Japanese hand-drawn/3D computer-animated Christmas family comedy musical film produced by 2DUX2, Random House Children’s Books, The Ink Factory, Marc Platt Productions, J.P. Entertainment, Imagine Entertainment, Hercules Film Fund, Illumination Entertainment, Legendary Pictures, Walden Media, Lightworkers Media, Sesame Workshop, Giving Films, Infinitus Entertainment, Beijing Wen Hua Investment Co., Wanda Media Co., Ltd, Huayi Tencent Entertainment Company, Eracme Entertainment, Dream Factory Group, CNHK Media China, Shanghai Hoongman Technology Co., Ltd, Shanghai Alibaba Pictures, Suning Universal Media Co., Ltd, Pearl Studio, Zhong Ming You Ying Film, Media Asia Distribution (Beijing), Orient Imagine Entertainment, Mannix Pictures, Jebsen Culture, Milk and Honey Pictures, Perfect World Pictures, China Film Co., Ltd, Tencent Pictures, Taihe Entertainment, Huayi Brothers, Hero4Hire Creative + Blacklist (end titles by and produced in partnership with) and distributed by China 3D Digital Entertainment (China), Intercontinental Film Distributors (HK) (Hong Kong) & Pure Flix Entertainment and Universal Pictures (United States). It is directed by Peter Cleveland and Yarrow Cheney and co-directed by Scott Mosier and Adrien Borzakian written by Brian Lynch, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio and based on the 1957 Dr. Seuss' story of the same name director of animation Matthew O'Callaghan, Songs: Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Germaine Franco, New Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Score by Alan Menken and Danny Elfman. The film will be released on November 9, 2018.

Plot
The Grinch, a cast member of "The Grinch's Wildlife", a Wildlife documentary TV show that was due to go into children's educational program (Benedict Cumberbatch) plans to steal Christmas for all the citizens of Whoville.

Cast

 * Benedict Cumberbatch as The Grinch, the most famous actor on The Grinch’s Wildlife who played on Children's education animal TV in the history of Wholywood (an obvious parody of Hollywood Sign) and Cindy Lou Who's idol. Revered by fans worldwide until his untimely cancelled, and now has a whography addiction, an misanthropic grumpy, green creature and former wildlife documentary child star who grows up to become obsessed with the movie and TV show filmmaker he played in the 1980s and is bent on hates Christmas.
 * Michael Peña as Max the Dog
 * Ed O'Neill as Fred the Reindeer
 * Liev Schreiber as Mayor Augustus May Who, the CEO of the Whoville Television Network, which produced and aired The Grinch's Wildlife, a former movie & TV personality and film and television famous filmmaker who the Grinch try to persuade to make a movie and tv show about them trying to get back in the spotlight, disguises a condescending Who chief and the Grinch's nemesis.
 * Cameron Seely as Cindy Lou Who
 * Lupita Nyong'o as Martha May Whovier
 * James Corden as Lou Lou Who, a Who gong-banger apprentice who is determined to prove the father of the Whoville and Betty Lou Who's father.
 * Rashida Jones as Betty Lou Who, a mother of Whoville who is the Whoville gong-banger and Lou Lou Who's widowed mother.
 * Kenan Thompson as Santa Claus
 * Dwayne Johnson as Whobris
 * Angela Lansbury as the Mayor of Whoville
 * Pharrell Williams as Sir Seuss Geisel, a library tour guide, the story's narrator.

Production
Animation

Brown Bag Films Manchester, which provided the 2D animated prologue and closing credits sequences for the film, Hero4Hire Creative and Blacklist, For the design and animation of the Grinch, the animators used the CG model of Mayor Augustus May Who and the 2D design of Santa Claus to create the character using hand-drawn animation for the snowflakes and ice power magic effects and computer-generated imagery for the rest. Canadian cartoonist Michel Gagné joined the film's to animate the 2D healing power hammer lightning and volcanic lava eruption effects for the Grinch. Like almost all of Illumination's other films, the animation was created entirely in France by Illumination Mac Guff, which was the animation department of Mac Guff which was acquired by Illumination Entertainment since the summer of 2011 and Hero4Hire Creative + Blacklist. The movie's animation was made using Autodesk Maya.

Marketing

The final poster and the final trailer was released online premiered on November 3, 2018.

Trivia

 * Lin-Manuel Miranda has said the character of The Grinch was a tribute to Benedict Cumberbatch.

Songs

 * You're a mean one Mr Grinch by Benedict Cumberbatch

Release
It will be accompanied in theaters by a DreamWorks Animation short titled Bird Karma.