The Origin of Maddox Monk (2024)

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*The Origin of Maddox Monk* is a 2024 live-action/CGI-animated hybrid and a sci-fi fantasy buddy comedy film directed by Patty Jenkins, starring Chris Pratt, Simon Pegg, Matthew Lillard, Elizabeth Lail, Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Patton Oswalt, with Bill Skarsgard, and Mason Wertheimer.

It is a prequel to The Adventures of Maddox Monk: The Movie (2022), scheduled to be released in theaters simultaneously, and on Disney+, in the United States by 20th Century Studios and Paramount Pictures on October 11, 2024.

## Synopsis

Hoping to find a soulmate in school, anxious and reluctant young student, Maddox Monk (Wertheimer), rallies the security guards (Hutcherson and Lail), children (Rubio, Grant, Armitage, and Parker) and animatronics (Pratt, Pegg, Rodriguez, Banks, Lillard, and Wilson) to discover the truth about their existence and how they get stuffed in.

Rated PG- for action/peril, mild language, disturbing images, and brief smoking

## Plot

In May 30th, 2017, the sun rises above the horizon, the school opens. The students celebrated the start of June as they sing the song every recess to show their guests how much they'd appreciate anything they'll do for them once parents will take their kids out to Myrtle Beach. An almost 6th grader, Maddox Monk, dreams of going swimming in the ocean and pool with his girlfriend in 5th grade class, Viniya Crisp, and his friends, Malik Laney, Cavion Chandler, Duncan Armstrong, Gabriel Holloway, Jessie Jones, and Diego Keller.

One day, students go on the field trip on the start of June 2017. On their way out of Charlotte, Josh Wallace suffered from a pinch of PTSD and tried to warn everyone that Myrtle Beach is not what it is said to be, but no one listened except for Maddox. Before an attempt to kill himself by falling off the school bus, Josh tells Maddox to seek out a brown bear animatronic named Freddy Fazbear.

Josh's injuries created an accidental bus collision that causes Maddox, Viniya, and the rest of their comrades to fly out of the school bus, including Maddox's sister, Miah Martin, and Maddox's colleague from Hansen's class, Jacob Hudson. Maddox's mother, Elizabeth Monk noticed a disaster from the school, she and Maddox felt devastated about the major school bus accidents. She and the teachers took a solemn vow, swearing it will never happen to her son again.

The next day, the school bus trip was coming to a restart. Maddox and Malik are horrified to see that infectious and aggressive leech-like creature, The Rage Virus, swoop students down to try to make them his dinner. Malik spots an escape route, but got his groin cracked from behind, leaving Maddox tumbling down the hill, lying facedown paralyzed and unconscious.

Just if it looked like Maddox is never able to verify Josh Wallace's warning, Freddy Fazbear had arrived with his friends and picked Maddox up and took him to his safe room. Maddox learns that the Fazbear Gang and their security guard companions, Mike Schmidt and Vanessa Monroe, created the white lie of Myrtle Beach to assuage of the inhabitants' fear of being taken away or stuffed in suits. Maddox vows to ran with his new friends to fight off worst enemies in every castle and fort they entered during their journey to the Rage Virus's palace and travel beyond the turret to find proof while Viniya Crisp tried her best to escape from the cage without getting caught.

Cavion Chandler encountered a zombie addict, Bridges, who's able to understand what kids are saying, including Boyfriend AKA Keith Sprite and Girlfriend AKA Cherry Dearest, after injecting himself with bath salts. However, the bath salts soon wore off and Bridges was ready to cook Cavion. Bridges accidentally burned himself and Cavion hoisted his legs, making him slip and causing an axe to fall and disembowel him.

Viniya Crisp disapproved of Maddox's skepticism of Myrtle Beach. Maddox, Freddy Fazbear and his close friend and love interest, Circus Baby, discovered a cannibal's cookbook beyond the tower of the Rage Virus's palace and revealed its contents to Lansdowne Elementary. Students and teachers panicked and refused to believe Maddox until Cavion, Keith, Cherry, and other fugitives from the Rage Virus's palace return with Bridges' corpse, proving that the Rage Zombies can all be annihilated.

The group drugged the zombies (even the Rage Virus) with arrows laced with bath salts, in which case the epic battle begins. Several zombies are brutally killed by students, security guards, administrators, athletes, teachers, and animatronics while a lost military soldier, Private Mailer, vomits blood on the Rage Virus, causing him to enlarge into a gigantic beast, which burst from the cathedral of the castle. Maddox and Freddy climbed on the top of the debris and attached a Rollermine to the Rage Virus's torso, and shot it with a rifle that one of the Rage Zombies dropped. The resulting massive explosion killed the Rage Virus, where upon the fireworks burst from the sky as all humans and animatronics celebrate their victory. Principal Crisp gave Maddox and his friends their medals, trophies, and certificates for their teamwork, courage, and humility, proving that they are special adventurers.

Shortly a few years later, Maddox grows up into the college student. Maddox, Nate Lewis, Savannah Trout, Dalton Rupert, and Khaleal Henson walked over to the vacant beach with Maddox's current girlfriend, Sadie Casper. They threw a massive party in a condo by getting themselves laid. Later, Maddox shows his teammates how special he can be, and how much his comrades in this world appreciated anything Maddox can watch over and protect, proving that he can someday take Cave Johnson's place as the King of Aperture Laboratories.

## Cast and Crew

### Animatronic/Robot Voice Cast

* Chris Pratt as Freddy Fazbear (voice)
* Simon Pegg as Foxy the Pirate Fox (voice)
* Elizabeth Banks as Circus Baby (voice)
* Luke Wilson as Bonnie the Bunny (voice)
* Gina Rodriguez as Chica the Chicken (voice)
* Ben Affleck as Glamrock Freddy (voice)
* Zoe Saldana as Roxanne Wolf and Ballora (voice)
* Emoi as Willy Weasel (voice)
* Frank Welker as Fetch the Dog (archive sound effects)
* Justin Timberlake as Golden Freddy (voice)
* MacInTalk as the Mimic and AUTO (voice)
* Harrison Ford as Spring-Bonnie/Springtrap (voice)

### Human Voice Cast

* Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt
* Elizabeth Lail as Vanessa Monroe
* Lucas Grant as Garrett Schmidt
* Piper Rubio as Abby Schmidt
* Matthew Lillard as William Afton/Steve Reglan/Springtrap (as an archive voice)
* Iain Armitage as Gregory Fazbear
* Nico Parker as Cassie Wolf
* Macie Juiles as Deliah Edwards
* Scarlett Johansson as Elizabeth Monk
* Mason Wertheimer as Maddox Monk
* Micah Abbey as Gabriel Holloway
* David Huston Doty as Malik Laney
* Laim Hendrix as Constantine Daniels
* Jophielle Love as Ella Evans
* Rodrigo Spinosa as Nathan Evans
* JD McCrary as Cavion Chandler
* Tristan Allerick Chen as Josh Wallace
* Shamon Brown Jr. as Ahmeen McClellan
* Brady Noon as Andy Vargas
* Xander Mateo as Duncan Armstrong
* Keith L. Williams as Michael Leath
* McKenna Grace as Campbell Barnhill
* Kamia Arrington as Viniya Crisp
* Brooklyn Prince as Skylar Kupfer
* Nicolas Cantu as Kyler Daleus
* Izaac Wang as Oscar Holley
* Olivia O'Niell as Miah Lynette
* Sloane Murray as Lydia Sale
* Grant Feely as Trenton Quick

### CGI-Animated Characters Voice Cast

* Patton Oswalt as Cartoon Bendy
* Tom Hardy as the Ink Demon
* Wagner Moura as the Entity/MXES
* Andy Serkis, Frank Welker, and Randy Thom as the Xen Creatures (sound effects)
* Bill Skarsgard as the Rage Virus

## Rating MPAA

* Rated PG- for action/peril, mild language, disturbing images, and brief smoking (Disney+ rating)
* Rated PG-13- for thematic elements involving dangerous and risky behavior, crude/suggestive content, language, and brief drug material- all involving kids (theatrical version, Netflix rating)

## TV Parental Guidelines

* TV-Y7-FV (Netflix rating, heavy edited version)
* TV-PG-DLSV (Disney+)
* TV-14-DLV (Theatrical Version, Netflix rating)

## Production Companies

* Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (distributor)
* 20th Century Studios
* Paramount Pictues
* DreamWorks SKG (copyright law/Universal Pictures subsidiary)
* 21 Laps Entertainment
* Relativity Media
* Amblin Entertainment
* Walden Media
* Reliance Entertainment
* Rat-Pac Entertainment
* Rideback
* Marc Platt Productions
* Blumhouse Productions
* 1492 Pictures

### Visual Effects and Animation

* Industrial Light and Magic
* The Jim Henson Company
* Source 2 Filmmaker
* Sony Pictures Imageworks
* Platinum Dunes
* TSG Entertainment II
* Blender 3D
* Cinema 4D

## The Origin of Maddox Monk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Deluxe Edition)

### Artist

Harry Callaghan
DAGames (songs and lyrics)
Christophe Beck (themes)
Dave Metzger
Brian Tyler (score)

### Label

Walt Disney RecordsRelativity Music Group

### Music Album Credits

* Songs and Music by: Harry Callaghan and DAGames
* Original Score by: David Metzger and Brian Tyler
* Music Producers: Henry Jackman, Emoi, Joel McNeely, and AJ Dispirito
* Executive Music Producer: Chris Montan
* Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall and Bob Bowen
* Additional Music: Geoff Zanelli, Michael Giacchino, and Matthew Margeson
* Orchestrators: Pete Anthony, Andrew Kinney, Joseph Trapanese, and Dominic Lewis
* FL Studio: DAGames, Alexander Rose Music, Harry101UK, and Samuel Kim
* Soundtrap: L'Orchestra Cinematique, TLB Orchestration, and HandfulJake

### Sound Credits

* Sound Designer: Christopher Scarabosio
* Sound Editor: Ren Klyce and Tom Myers
* Sound Effects Recording: Benjamin A. Burtt
* Supervising Sound Editors: Odin Benitez and Tim Nielsen
* Re-Recording Mixer: Christopher Boyes and Gary Rydstrom
* Sound FX Supervisor: Shannon Mills and David Acord

### Featuring Song:

* "Myrtle Beach (Intro Theme)"
	+ Songs and Music by: Harry Callaghan and DAGames
	+ Lyrics by: DAGames, BSlick, Matt Lieberman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Harry Callaghan, and Kathleen Kennedy
	+ Vocal Processor: Cosmic Cosmo, InuTrash, Swiblet, and Chloe Eves
	+ Composition by: CG5, AJ Dispirito, Kyle Allen Music, and Alexander Rose
	+ Producers: Henry Jackman and Brian Tyler
	+ Orchestrated by: Pete Anthony, Andrew Kinney, and Dave Metzger
	+ Performance by: The Origin of Maddox Monk Cast

### Playlist

Total Songs: 15 | Runtime: 52:41 (53 min)

Total Songs: 29 | Runtime: 1:11:50 (72 min)

* Discs: 2
* Total Album Songs: 44
* Total Runtime: 2:04:32 (125 min)

## Home Media

The Origin of Maddox Monk would be streaming on Disney+ simultaneously coming out on Blu-Ray and Digital with the same release date. It will approximately will stream on Netflix and release on DVD + 3D + Ultra HD (4K) and IMAX Enhanced in December 10th, 2024.

## Music

Dave Metzger would be hired to orchestrate songs and original score, cooperating with Henry Jackman's frequent music collaborator Brian Tyler into composing for the movie, although Christophe Beck and John Powell would compose for other films.