JPW

**Jack Pihl Wikström** (born July 17, 2005) better known by his initials as **JPW** is a Swedish director, producer, screenwriter, animator, and voice actor. Known for directing films such as *Dude Popper* and *Misfortunate World*.

## Origins

Before discovering Plotagon, he joined YouTube in September 20, 2016 at age 11, he previously used to do Stop-Motion videos (mostly LEGO or Claymation), he made them mostly for fun and not for views, as of 2021 he hasn't been making Stop-Motion videos in a while, but announced he will eventually return to it soon.

### Discovering Plotagon

During somewhere in 2016 he saw a video called Pink Sheep is mean which was made in Plotagon, being a very short plot with little context, he forgot about Plotagon until 2017, when he discovered it after searching for GoAnimate on the App Store. He downloaded the app on June 2017, and made his first plot on the site. Which was meant only for YouTube. He made his second plot (which is commonly mistaken for his first one) titled "Dude vs evilkins who will Win?" which was based off of his clay figures he made in 2015, which was more of an animation test than an actual plot. He was heavily inspired by Alexander32 and Klas Holmlund when making plots.

### Films and Series

In 2017 he began making a series called YouTuber's Life, which was about DanTDM inviting other YouTubers to a party, until Denton kidnaps them, it was cancelled after 4 episodes.

He later started development on a series called Dude Popper, which was about a clay figure who lived in the fictional world of Claylonia with magical powers, production began in 2018, but stopped in 2019, it was later confirmed to be scrapped in 2021, in favor of the film adaptation.

On December 2020, ideas were announced, with four Plotagon films planned for the future, with *Dude Popper* beginning in 2021, and after that *Misfortunate World*, a film titled *A Silent Film* is also in development.

in January 12, 2021, a subsidiary of JPW Pictures named Time Films was founded, which is planned to be the production company for some of the revived projects, and some original films, with its first feature planned to be *Galaxies*, a Sci-Fi film.

On July 30, 2021, he released *Dude Popper*, which was a critical and financial success. After its success, he announced his next film *Misfortunate World* was in production.

On February 4, 2022, *Misfortunate World* was released, it received positive reviews but was a box office disappointment.

## Cancelled films

During 2017, he had various films in mind to make, most of them never came to be, his first attempt at a film was called *Wayside: The Movie*, which was based on the Canadian 2007 TV Show, which was itself based on the Book series by Louis Sachar, production began around late 2017, it was never completed and was cancelled somewhere around 2018 due to story problems, a lack of interest, and the fact that there was already a film with the same name that came out 12 years before his own, however, in 2021 he confirmed a new film adaptation is in the works, which would follow the source material more closely.

Around Mid-2017, he planned on making three films based on the Dead Trigger games, none of them went into production and were abandoned around late 2017, eventually in 2019 a film titled *Dead Trigger* directed by Sammy Knight was released and was met with critical acclaim, albeit with no connection to JPW's original vision.

During the years he decided to take over other Plotagonists' films and series, he wanted to try and adapt them into film, four significant ones were *The Jailbreak: Crimes* (originally by TheBlueCat) which was going to be a user-driven crime film about an evil conspiracy plotted against the government, *The War: Revolution* (originally by BlueReptileProductions) which was going to be about a war set place in 1770s, *Sealing the Edge* (originally by TheTruthOf3456710OrTheLoudLocation) which was going to be about the tale of two androids, and *Plot the Night* (originally by BowTieBoy12) which was going to be a mystery film. Most of them were cancelled in 2018 due to his mental breakdown and war against the community, however, after getting on better terms, he announced the revival of three of the named films, with them being produced by Time Films. While *The War* was permanently cancelled.

Around approximately September 2018, a film called *The Rise of the Zombies* was going to made, originally a joke, after an audition by DBG Channel, JPW enjoyed it so much that he decided to make the film a reality, it of course never happened, having been cancelled somewhere around late 2018 or early 2019, due to a lack of interest.

In February 2, 2020, he tried again at making a feature film, which was called *Working Together*. The plot would be about Steve with his everyday life in work, as he would come up with ways to boost the economy. The film ended up being cancelled largely due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, story problems, and also due to a lack of interest.

## Involvement in other films

Being a friend to many Plotagonists such as Jackster Does Plotagon and DBG Channel, he has been in films such as *Jackster's Big Movie*, in which he had a relatively small role, despite being one of the main characters, he would have also played a major role in the cancelled *Tara Conlan: Zombie Warrior*, he has publicly expressed regret in starring in them. He also made a small cameo in *LazyTown 2: Trashy's Revenge* (albeit mentioned) and in the cancelled *LazyTown 3: Mindgames.* He has recently been announced as producer and story writer to Sammy Knight's upcoming film, *The QuestBlade Incident.* Alongside DBG Channel. He will serve as an Associate producer in DBG Channel's upcoming film *Happy Wheels 3: Multi-Insanity*, he will also have a cameo in said film as a Police officer.

## Personal life

JPW is an Asatruar, believing in the ten gods and goddesses of Asgard and the Yggdrasil tree that consists of nine worlds, although he was originally a Christian until 2018, when he became an atheist, he converted to Asatru in 2020 after considering his time as an atheist to be "one of the biggest mistakes in my lifetime".

Aside from his native Swedish, he can speak fluent English, he also has some knowledge of Norwegian and Danish. He is currently teaching himself Spanish and plans to learn more languages such as German and Russian in the future.

He has autism.

He is of Sami and Finnish descent through his maternal great grandmother's side.

## Filmography

Directed features
 2022
 TBA