Swoople's Way Home

**Swoople's Way Home** is a Korean-Belgian-American American animated comedy film produced by Studio GALE and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures. The film is a prequel to *Swoople and the Paw Gang*. Directed by Tony Cervone, produced by Robert Alvarez, and written by Kevin Hopps,

## Characters

* Swoople
* Harry
* Snap
* Barney
* Hip
* Snit
* Baxter
* Crazy Perry
* Dong-Chouel
* Young-Chouel
* Ki-Chouel
* Mr. Chouel
* Ms. Chouel
* Jimmy
* Halmeoni-Chouel
* Harabeoji-Chouel
* Mittens
* Kiddy
* Fluffy
* Buggy
* Dogs
* Rattles
* Hana-Chouel
* Chang-Ho Chouel (stock footage)
* Kim-Seo (stock footage)
* Eun-Chouel (stock footage)
* Joey (stock footage)
* Seok-Chouel (stock footage)
* City People
* Animal Shelter Dogs

## Plot

After getting kicked out by Ki-Chouel, Swoople, with a help from the city animals, tries to get his way home, But a zealous animal-control officer has other ideas.

## Production

The film was in development by January 2015, with a plan to release the film in 2018/2019. Director Tony Cervone said he wanted to "take Swoople out of his comfort zone," which resulted in having the story set in a city. In adapting the television show to feature length, the director sought to give the character "an emotional life," with Cervone noting, "If you get that right, the audience is going to root for those characters [and] laugh more."

In the summer of June 2017, Studio GALE. (known for *Pororo The Little Penguin* & *Tayo the Little Bus*) a Korean animation studio branch owned & operated by ICONIX. in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, will provide the animation.

On 21 November 2017, a memorandum of understanding between Dupuis Audiovisual, Cube Creative, Warner Animation Group and SK Broadband was announced: together, the companies would invest US$50 million through 2017 into five Dong-Chouel projects. The first of these projects was developed into *Swoople's Way Home*, which received an investment of $10 million. As a part of the deal, SK Broadband would have exclusive rights in South Korea for video on demand release, available to the subscribers of the company's IPTV platform B TV

The film had an initial release date of 20 March 2020, which later was moved to 7 May 2020. Production began on 30 January 2019.

## Trivia

* The events of the movie takes place in the late 2010's as The Chouel family installed a new TV replacing the old TV they had in the 1980's cartoon
* According to Producer, Robert Alvarez, The film's message is "appreciate the things you have, because one day you could lose them."
* In February 2021, the movie aired on Cartoon Network Asia and Warner TV. to honor the 65th anniversary of the Dong-Chouel franchise
* This film is dedicated to Albert Uderzo, who died during production of this film
* When aired on Cartoon Network Asia, the scene when Swoople yells "WHAT THE HECK" is cut, also, The scene when Swoople and the Paw Gang jump out of the window is cut
* This film aired on KBS1, KBS2, Tooniverse, Cartoon Network Korea, Disney Channel, Korea, Nickelodeon Korea, EBS1, EBS2, Daekyo NoriQ, Daekyo Kids TV, Champ TV and JEI TV in January 1, 2021.
* Some assets from Pororo the Little Penguin and Tayo the Little Bus are reused in some scenes.