DreamWorks Animation has announced the star cast for its upcoming original animated feature, The Bad Guys. The star cast includes Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Richard Ayoade, Zazie Beetz, Lilly Singh and Emmy award winner Alex Borstein.
The Bad Guys, based on the New York Times’ best-selling scholastic book series by Aaron Blabey, is an action-packed heist for all ages that follows a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws as they attempt their most challenging, yet model citizens.
After a lifetime of pulling legendary heists, five notorious bad guys; Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula, attempt their most challenging job yet going good. Nobody has ever failed so hard at trying to be good as The Bad Guys.
Making his feature-directing debut, the film is directed by Pierre Perifel, the co-director of DWA’s award-winning short Bilby, and animator on the Kung Fu Panda films. It is produced by Damon Ross and Rebecca Huntley. Blabey, Etan Cohen, Patrick Hughes will executive produce.
It will be released on 15 April 2022 by Universal Pictures.