Former ILM exec and Reel FX runner Ed Jones and ex-CEO of Walden Media Cary Granat have started a new operation called Bedrock Studios that will make family films with budgets of less than $35 million, according to Variety.
The studio debuts with an announcement of its first project, an animated featured called Turkeys that will feature the voices of Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson playing turkeys who travel back in time to take their species off the Thanksgiving table.
Turkeys is in pre-production for a 2011 release.
Other key personnel include writers and producers John J. Strauss and David I. Stern, director Ash Brennon, exec producer Peter Farrelly and additional cast member Luke Wilson.
Bedrock also announced it is developing Rats of NIMH, A Wrinkle in Time and Dinosaur Bob.
Bedrock’s planning to produce and develop projects from their studios based in Santa Monica and Dallas, where Reel FX has been based since 1993, using production management and multi-platform technology developed by Reel FX, Variety reports.
