First announced late last year, the feature film based on Showtime’s short-lived Flash-animated series, Queer Duck, is slated to arrive on home video on July 18 courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment. Queer Duck: The Movie is written by series creator Mike Reiss, a former Simpsons scribe, and brings back such beloved characters as Openly Gator, Bi-Polar Bear and Oscar Wildcat.
Queer Duck debuted as an Internet short on www.icebox.com and was eventually picked up by Showtime to air after the popular series Queer as Folk in 2003. The show featured Jim J. Bullock as the voice of male nurse Adam Seymour ‘Queer Duck’ Duckstein, who learns it’s okay to be who he is with a little help from his friends. A total of 20 episodes were produced before Showtime decided it didn’t want to be branded as a gay channel and dropped the series.
Described by producer Tal Vigderson as ‘Madagascar for the Daily Show crowd,’ Queer Duck: The Movie is directed by Xeth Feinberg and produced by Paramount in partnership with Icebox, a new-media company with a library of more than 170 animated shorts. The film’s makers say the project breaks new ground by being the first Flash-animated feature film from a major studio. Exec producers include Howard Gordon (24), Rob LaZebnick (The Simpsons) and John Collier (King of the Hill).
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