Scorchville

***Scorchville*** is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated musical absurdist comedy-drama fantasy adventure film produced by Illumination. It is directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro. It features an ensemble voice cast.

*Scorchville* was released on December 11, 2020 in New Zealand, December 12, 2020 in the United Kingdom, and on December 17, 2020 in the United States, by Universal Pictures.

## Cast

* Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Parker
* Chris Hemsworth as Thor
* Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Parker
* Chris Evans as Steve Rogers
* Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff
* Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange
* Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes
* Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton
* Tom Holland as Peter Parker
* Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa
* Cate Blanchett as Hela
* Jeff Goldblum as Erik Stevens
* Paul Bettany as Pietro Maximoff
* Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff
* Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson
* Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes
* Tom Hiddleston as Loki
* Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes
* Idris Elba as Heimdall
* Peter Dinklage as Mayor Bolivar Trask
* Benedict Wong as Wong
* Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue
* Pom Klementieff as Mantis Parker
* Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
* Karen Gillan as Nebula
* Dave Bautista as Drax
* Zoe Saldana as Gamora Parker
* Vin Diesel as Groot
* Bradley Cooper as Rocket
* Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
* Jon Favreau as Harold "Happy" Hogan
* Benicio del Toro as Assistant Mayor Taneleer Tivan
* Michael Douglas as Hank Pym
* Josh Brolin as Palpatine Sidious
* Chris Pratt as Peter Quill

## **Video games**

* *See also: Angry Birds Scorchville and LEGO Scorchville*

**Angry Birds Scorchville** is a puzzle video game, a crossover between Scorchville, and the Angry Birds series of video games and movies (cutscene only), launched on July 18, 2020, first for Windows, iOS, and Android devices. The game is the twenty-fifth Angry Birds game in the series. The characters are copyrighted from this film. Warner Bros. and Rovio announced that *Angry Birds Scorchville* will be heading for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Nintendo 3DS in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive.

***LEGO Scorchville*** is a LEGO-themed video game based on Scorch. The game closely follows the plot of the movie, but with some modifications so that it would be more child-friendly, have some extra content and adapt to the two-player gameplay specific to the LEGO formula.

## **Production and development**

* *See also: Production of Scorchville*

On September 3rd, 2019, the first short sneak peak was released. On September 9th, the second trailer was delayed as confirmed and that the film would premiere on March 6th, 2020.

The film includes the films *Escape from Planet Earth*, *Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones*, *Star Wars: The Force Awakens*, *Dinosaur*, *Epic*, *Alice*, *Solo*, *Thor: The Dark World*, *Igor*, *Mars Attacks!*, *Winnie the Pooh*, *Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale*, *Pest of the West*, *Truth or Square*, as well as The Loud House episode *It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud, House*.

### **Casting**

The film's casting was mostly done by Sarah Halley Finn.

### **Music**

* *See also: Scorchville/Soundtrack*

In June 2018, Alan Silvestri was revealed to be scoring the film. With permission from Marvel Studios, Silvestri was allowed to re-write some tracks from *Avengers: Age of Ultron* by Brian Tyler and Danny Elfman, *Thor: Ragnarok* by Mark Mothersbaugh, and *Black Panther* by Ludwig Göransson, and use tracks from *Avengers: Infinity War* and *Ready Player One*, for the film.

The songs are songs from musicals *Annie*, *Les Misérables*, *The Greatest Showman*, *Mary Poppins Returns*, *Winnie the Pooh*, *Pete's Dragon*, and *The SpongeBob Musical*.

In the trailer, the song "Somewhere Only We Know" by English alternative rock band Keane. The song by Keane is included on the soundtrack as a bonus track, but not in the movie.

## **Release**

*Scorchville* was originally going to be released in October 2018. One year later, Muschietti confirmed that the film's production would be moved up and was set to be released in December 17, 2020.

As the red carpet premiere for the movie has been confirmed in Los Angeles, director Jackson, producer Jay Roach, screenwriters Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and del Toro, and many cast members are all scheduled to come to the premiere.

### **Marketing**

* *Main article: Marketing of Scorchville*

In May 2019, Matthew Broderick and his philanthropic organization Random Act Funding partnered with Omaze to initiate a contest to benefit the organization. A randomly chosen winner from those that donated would receive a *Scorchville* set visit.

### **Home media**

It is scheduled to be released on Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on March 24, 2021 in the United States.