Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty Land

Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty Land is a 2023 comedy-adventure CG-animated film directed by Chris Wedge and is produced by Paramount Animation, 20th Century Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios and Microsoft Studios. it is based off of the Microsoft franchise of the same name.
== Plot ==
In a region called Spiral Mountain, a foul-tempered witch named Gruntilda learns from her cauldron, Dingpot, that Tooty, a brown honey bear living nearby, is more beautiful than her. Jealous, Gruntilda creates a machine to transfer an entity's beauty to another, which she intends to use with Tooty. Gruntilda kidnaps Tooty while her older brother, Banjo, is sleeping. Banjo's friend Kazooie, a female red-crested "Breegull," wakes him up and the two resolve to rescue Tooty. While Banjo and Kazooie collect musical notes and Jiggies to traverse through Gruntilda's Lair, they are aided by Bottles, a mole and Tooty's friend, and Mumbo Jumbo, a shaman who used to be Gruntilda's teacher; they also rescue Jinjos, small creatures that Gruntilda imprisoned in each world.
Having gathered most of the musical notes and Jiggies, Banjo and Kazooie participate in a trivia game show hosted by Gruntilda, where they answer questions and complete challenges related to certain aspects of the game. Once they win the game, Banjo and Kazooie retrieve Tooty and celebrate with their friends and a barbecue. Shortly after the barbecue begins, however, Tooty, unsatisfied with her kidnapper's passive defeat, command the heroes to pursue the escaped Gruntilda. Banjo and Kazooie enter the top of the lair, where they confront the witch. A fierce battle ensues, but with the help of the Jinjos they rescued, the duo send Gruntilda falling towards Spiral Mountain, where she is trapped beneath a falling boulder. Banjo and Kazooie go on vacation at a beach with their friends and celebrate their victory. Gruntilda swears revenge against Banjo and Kazooie, calling for her henchman, Klungo, to move the boulder.
== Development ==
Once in 2001, following Rare's deal with 20th Century Fox, Fox acquired the film rights to Banjo-Kazooie, which might lead to an animated film produced by the now-defunct Fox Animation Studios, but later on, Chris Wedge, founder of Blue Sky Studios and creator of Ice Age expressed interest in the film which would be released in 2007, but in 2006, the rights were acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures as they would release the film in 2010, but again, the rights were taken over by Paramount Pictures and was planned to release in 2014 and later, 2017. but during an interview with Chris Wedge, he said that he got back interest in the Banjo-Kazooie movie and luckily, 20th Century Fox got back the film rights, and during CBS Corporation's acquisition of 21st Century Fox and the Viacom-CBS merger, it was announced that Paramount would be working on the film alongside distributing it worldwide, and during E3 2021, Phil Spencer, president of Microsoft's gaming operations, said that the film would come out in 2023.