The Devil's Jesters

The Devil's Jesters is a 2022 independent live-action/adult-animated musical horror comedy-drama film produced by Channel Awesome, SpindleHorse Toons, Sunny Day Films, Point Grey Pictures, and Good Universe and distributed by Paramount Pictures and Vue International. It was directed by Vivienne Medrano (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay she co-wrote alongside Doug Walker, Rob Walker, Dave Capdevielle, Daniel MacDonald, Raymond T. Hernandez, Brandon Rogers, Adam Neylan, Jamie Hickinbottom, and the filmmaking duo of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. A crossover between the live-action comedy web-series Nostalgia Critic created by Doug and the adult-animated television series Hazbin Hotel and its spin-off Helluva Boss both created by Medrano (the former of which was picked up for a full series by Amazon Prime Video after starting off as a pilot on YouTube and the latter remaining a web-series), the film is a collaboration between production houses from America and Britain, the sequel to Kickassia (2010), Suburban Knights (2011) and To Boldly Flee (2012), the direct sequel to the Hazbin Hotel pilot, the season two finale to Helluva Boss, the fourth feature film from Channel Awesome, the first feature film from SpindleHorse, and the first crossover film for both series overall. The film stars Doug reprising his role as The Nostalgia Critic, Jill Harris reprising her voice role from the Hazbin Hotel pilot as Charlie Morningstar with Erika Henningsen providing the character's singing voice, and Rogers reprising his voice role from Helluva Boss as Blitzo, alongside Rob, Malcolm Ray, Tamara Chambers, Jim Jarosz, Walter Banasiak, Heather Reuz, Aiyanna Wade, Brad Jones, Awkwafina, and Seth Rogen in live-action roles and Monica Franco, Michael Kovach, Krystina Alabado, Joe Gaudet, Michelle Marie, Keith David, Alex Brightman, Richard Steven Horvitz, Carolyn Lawrence, Erica Lindbeck, Bryce Pinkham, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Skarsgård, Kimiko Glenn, and Angelina Jolie in voice roles. The story follows Nostalgia Critic and the Channel Awesome crew, with the Hazbin Hotel crew led by Charlie and the Immediate Murder Professionals (IMP) led by Blitzo in tow, contending with the titular Devil's Jesters, a quarter of demons led by the sinister Mangler with plans to conquer both Hell and Earth using their otherworldly powers and commanding a vast army of irredeemable sinners.