Avery the Warrior (film)

***Avery the Warrior*** is an 2010 American computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama action-adventure film produced by JeremySoft Animation and Amblin Animation, with animation provided by CreativeNext Animation. Based on JeremySoft's video game series of the same name, It was directed by Roger Allers, and written by Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott. In this film, a teenage girl named Avery had to train herself into a warrior and stop Servillah from unleashing a deadly dragon and ruling the world.

The film was released by Universal Pictures on April 2, 2010. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $717 million, becoming the eighth highest-grossing film of 2010. It was later followed by two sequels: 2014's *Avery the Warrior: Beyond The Journey*, and 2019's *Avery the Warrior: Into the Shadow*.

## Cast

* Christina Ricci as Avery, a teenage warrior girl and the main protagonist.
* Freddie Highmore as Camey, a teenage warrior boy whom Avery's best friend and boyfriend.
* Michelle Rodriguez as Bellona, a teenage warrior girl and the tritagonist of the film.
* Zoe Saldana as Servillah, a evil female teenage lord who wants to unleashing Lord Dragon and ruling the world.
* Abbi Jacobson as Mariana, an girl and one of Avery's friends.
* Michael Cera as Dalton, a teen boy who is one of Avery's friends.

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## Production

In 1989, Amblin Entertainment purchased the film rights to *Avery the Warrior* for JeremySoft, intending to produce a live-action feature film. John McTiernan, director of *Die Hard* and its sequel was set to write the screenplay. In December 1990, Amblin hired Simon Wells to direct an animated musical adaptation, with Amblimation producing it for a 1994 release. Unfortunately, the film was cancelled due to the following box-office and critical failure of the 1993 live-action film based on *Super Mario Bros.*, as well as in favor for the production of other films, *Meredith's Journey*, *Balto* and *Natalia's Story*.

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### Animation

Scott Young said in October 2004 that they will start animating the film sometime in 2007. CreativeNext Animation handled animation services for the film and the hand-drawn animation for the 2D sequences was done overseas by Valentina Animation. The sequences that Valentina Animation did are the opening sequence (which is shown after the opening logos but before the opening titles), dream sequences, Avery's flashback sequences, Servillah's flashback sequences, and the ending sequence (with the credits created by Scarlett Letters).

## Release

*Avery the Warrior* was originally scheduled for a theatrical release on November 25, 2009, but production setbacks resulted in a push-back to March 5, 2010, while *Alternate Reality 2* was moved to fill in for the film's absence. The film was then moved back to April 2, 2010 to avoid competition with *Alice in Wonderland*.

### Home media

*Avery the Warrior* was released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 6, 2010 by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

## Soundtrack

*Main article: Avery the Warrior (film)/Soundtrack*
On August 1, 2013, Danny Elfman was originally going to compose the score, but he was replaced by Heitor Pereira. On October 24, 2013, David Newman replaced Pereira.

## Transcripts

### Main

To see the main transcript of the film, click here.

### Trailers

To see the transcript for the trailers of the film, click here.