The Amazing Brutus

*The Amazing Brutus is an upcoming 2023 Mexican American co-production.*

## Cast

* Christian Ibarra as TBA
* Consuelo Duval as TBA
* Aislinn Derbez as TBA
* Freddy and Germán Ortega "Los Mascabrothers" are TBA and TBA

## Production

During a panel that was part of the Comic Con at Home that took place on Saturday July 25th, 2020, Ricardo Arnaíz mentioned that  the current project he is working on came from a very unusual place. He was at the time working on another animated project  when he received an email from Armando Ibarra, who is the owner of an accounting firm that supervised all  the accounting matters of *El Americano: The Movie*, which was the last movie project he had been a part of. He was honestly surprised to and thought the email pertained to numbers or with reports and things of that nature.

Ricardo admits to have initially been confused  because the email was asking him to read a script, and he didn’t know exactly what to expect. He was actually already thinking of how to apologize like saying to Armando that he thought it was a great story but just didn’t have the time for it or  something like that. Above all else, he didn’t want to hurt Armando's feelings because he was always so kind to him during the process of *El Americano: The Movie*. However he was hooked right away on the story from the first page. He loved everything about it, from the story to the characters, and how well the script was written. He did have a lot of notes, but he liked that the story engaged him right away and he wanted to see more and keep on reading.  He wanted to see what would  become of these characters, what would the climax be and how the film would end.

Once he finished reading the script, he gave Armando a call and told him that he had a great project on his hands, and that he would love to be part of it. So he asked if he could be considered as either director or producer. But above all else, he wanted to help Armando as a fellow creative mind to make the movie. Ricardo admits that you never know when or from where  a good story will come from.Several discussions with Armando and Christian later,  Ricardo started developing  the movie and the characters with  his friend Eduardo Jimenez, who has a studio in Puebla, Mexico.  Initially, the two of them decided to go with 2D kind of style when it came to animation. However, after they saw the movie *Klaus*, which hails from Spain, they both thought and agreed that it was a great look and are now exploring this kind of animation and visual development. Ricardo adds that things are going great currently and they are also adding some Mexican style in there. But they also want this to be a co-production between  Mexico and the United States. They are currently gathering  all kinds of experts and from Hollywood to help them with all this development.

## Release

*The Amazing Brutus* is scheduled to be released during Holiday 2023.

## Promotional Materials

### Videos

The Amazing Brutus - Unusual places to find a great Animation Story - Comic-Con@Home 2020Saturday July 25th SDCC panel
### Gallery

Teaser PosterEmail from Armando Ibarra to Ricardo about The Amazing BrutusPart of The Amazing Brutus Script
## Trivia

* The story of *The Amazing Brutus* came to Armando in a series of dreams about a year ago (i.e. 2019) within the course of a week. Every night he would have the dream about this lion performing in the circus sometime in the 1940’s in California.
* Armando mentions that this is a story about a lion that escapes the circus to reunite with his family, but it’s also about the importance of friendships, trust and  love. All while touching on the importance of caring for the environment and  endangered species which are hot topics these days.
* The story will be full of action and adventure with some really memorable characters that Armando hopes will capture the audience’s hearts.