Mitchell Van Morgan (2020 film)

*For other uses of the term "Mitchell Van Morgan" see Mitchell Van Morgan (disambiguation).*

## Development staff

### Directed by

Jay Lender
Micah Ian Wright

### Produced by

* MITCHELL Project
* Micah Ian Wright
* Mary Harrington
* Amir Nasrabadi
* Jason Rubin
* Lars Wingefors
* Yashuhiro Minamimoto

### Written by

Jay Lender
Micah Ian Wright

### Screenplay by

Jay Lender
Micah Ian Wright

### Based on

Mitchell Van Morgan by
MITCHELL Project and Nickelodeon (ViacomCBS)

### Starring

* Corbin Bleu
* Christopher Massey
* Erin Sanders
* Amy Bruckner
* Rupert Grint
* Matthew Underwood
* Austin Butler
* Tommy Tiny Lister

### Music by

* Mark Mothersbaugh
* Charlie Brissette
* MITCHELL Project Music Team (Original composer)

## Overview

### Studios

* Paramount Animation
* Paramount Players
* Nickelodeon Movies
* MITCHELL Project

### Release date

* May 22nd, 2020 (Madison Square Garden)
* June 3rd, 2020 (United States)

## Film order

### Followed by

Mitchell Van Morgan 2

**Mitchell Van Morgan** is a 2020 American adventure comedy film that is a live action adaptation based on Nickelodeon's Mitchell Van Morgan franchise and directed by the Mitchell Van Morgan staff members Jay Lender and Micah Ian Wright. The film stars Corbin Bleu, Christopher Massey, Erin Sanders, Amy Bruckner, Rupert Grint, Matthew Underwood, Austin Butler, Tommy Tiny Lister, and Rob Paulson (or Frank Welker) as the voice of Marquessaniks.

A live action Mitchell Van Morgan film was announced in 2017 as the *Mitchell Van Morgan The 2nd* community name, and Corbin Bleu was cast in the title role in May 2018. Most of the other lead cast members were hired throughout the rest of the year, and filming took place from August to December 2018 in in Raleigh, North Carolina. This film is set after the events of the animated television series, comics and the video game series.

The film features a small-town of Hillsborough, NC (USA) along with the city of Raleighopolis sheriff assisting Mitchell and his pals Gavin, Martin, David, Nicholas, Carolyn and Jennifer as he attempts to escape the government and end Marquessa's evil schemes of conquering the world.

The film was theatrically released in the United States on June 9, 2020, by Paramount Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Bleu's performance and the self-aware humor with fantasy sequences, and grossed $120 million worldwide.

## Plot

Carlos Miller, the high school students appointed ordinary teenager of large town Raleigh, North Carolina the Police officer-turned-newly appointed sheriff of largest town Raleigh, North Carolina, goes on a journey from Grasslands to North Carolina in his efforts to assist Mitchell, an Afro-Latin American high school delinquent who can run at incredible speeds, in evading capture by the government, recovering his MVM coins, and defeating the insane African-American mad scientist Doctor Marquessa.

## Cast

### Live action

* Corbin Bleu as Mitchell Van Morgan, an Afro-Latin American high school delinquent who can run at incredible speeds, who is also a cartoonist/freelance rock musician and He is the series' title character and main protagonist.
* Christopher Massey as Gavin O'Neal Davis, a intelligent African-American high school mechanic who is Mitchell's best friend, right-hand man and best man. He is talented, courageous but is very thunderphobic and he is the brains of the organization as Mitchell's best mechanic of the group and He is the series' main deutagonist.
* Erin Sanders as Carolyn Ashley Taylor, a White-American high school typical girl who is Mitchell's childhood friend, sweetheart and love interest. and is also the master archer..
* Amy Bruckner as Jennifer Hooker, a bucktooth White-American high school young girl who is Gavin's self-proclaimed sweetheart and Carolyn's best friend/right-hand woman.
* Rupert Grint as Martin J. Moody, a high school White-American redhead who is Mitchell's friend and friendly rival. His fighting style is mostly based on bare-knuckle boxing, he is also the powerhouse of Mitchell's group and he is the series' main tritagonist.
* Matthew Underwood as David Jessie Drake, a White-American truant who is Mitchell's friend, Gavin's friendly rival and the werewolf. He is a playboy, stay home alot, pickpocketer, and He fights using his taekwondo fighting style. He is also the weakness of Mitchell's group and he is the series' main tritagonist.
* Austin Butler as Nicholas Dunn, a White-American high school snowboarder and automechanic who is Mitchell's friend and travel companion. He was definitely born in the same timeline as Mitchell and Gavin. He masters architectural culture, keen thoughts and lancering skills. He is also the last fighting member of Mitchell's group.
* Tommy Tiny Lister as Doctor Marquessa, The insane African-American mad scientist who is Mitchell's arch-nemesis.
* Andy Samberg as Police Officer of Raleigh

### Voice actors and motion-capture

* Rob Paulson as Marquessanik, Marquessa's robotic pawn minions.
* James Spader as Metal Mitchell, Mitchell's evil robotic clone of himself.

## Production

The production first started in 2016 with the Nickelodeon Movies team sends a tone to Nickelodeon's classic videogame platformer *Mitchell Van Morgan* as an act of surprise to the actual plan get their live-action counterpart in place and letting actors taking live-action shots as the series takes a tole from Paramount Pictures.

### Development

The development took some time in their own chorography lessons. The Mitchell Van Morgan Movie is scheduled to premiere in 2018 with Dan Schneider as the executive producer alongside with Dave Green set to direct the film. In October 2017, Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies announced that they had put the film with an unturnable events and retained the ideas based on the series. Despite this, most of the production team changed after Nickelodeon fired Dan Schneider for sexual acquisitions on a kids' cable company. In Spring 2018, The first to report about Nickelodeon parting ways with Schneider, also reported that there were complaints about Schneider's alleged behavior, including his alleged "well-documented temper issues for years" and his tweets showing photos of his young actresses' feet. Nickelodeon did not respond to *Deadline*Template:'s report and Schneider's representative refused to comment on the report.

### Visual effects and design

Following the criticism of Mitchell's initial live-action design, director Jay Lender stated that Mitchell and his gang would be redesigned, resulting in the film's release being postponed four years.

The visual effects for the Mitchell Van Morgan characters are provided by Industrial Light & Magic, Evil Scum Motion Pictures LLC, Technical Director and SFX - The Studios At Paramount.

The film's screenwriter Micah Ian Wright revealed that for the film, Mitchell would have a design that was still him and yet a "little more realistic". As promised, the production team created a new, more of realistic version of Mitchell, adding his trademark clothes from the series, humans and a more human-like physique. They used They're Watching, Wright's 2016 personal live-action horror film, The series' spinoff Constant Payne which he made in 2001 and Mitchell from the series itself, as a reference to insert a CG character into a real-world setting.

### Music

In February 2019, Charlie Brissette and the MITCHELL Project Music Team, who previously worked with executive producer Viacom Networks Japan K.K. on many Mitchell Van Morgan video games, was hired to compose the score. The soundtrack was released alongside the film on July 2020 in both digital and physical formats. Riff Raff, who had a role in the film but was cut, appears on the soundtrack., appears on the soundtrack; the single was released on January 24 by Nickelodeon Records and Paramount Music.

## Trivia

* some of the franchise's reoccurring characters was originally supposed to appear in the film but was forgotten during production.
* Jay Lender explained that Super Mitchell and the Power Stones were going to be in the movie, before the decision was made to focus on Mitchell and Marquessa's rivalry.
* On August 16, 2014, The Paramount Team revealed in an interview the Mitchell Van Morgan staff that they have signed on for three films based on the series.

## References

1. ↑ Bui, Hoai-Tran (August 10, 2018). 'Mitchell Van Morgan' First Look at a Live-action Mitchell Reminds You That Yep, This Movie is Happening. */Film*. Retrieved on August 10, 2018.
2. ↑ Yahr, Emily (March 29, 2018). The sudden end of Dan Schneider’s time at Nickelodeon, where he built an empire. Retrieved on June 17, 2019.

## External links

* Official website
* Nickelodeon Movies website

 ***Mitchell Van Morgan* in other media**