Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
Genres: Action, Animated, Comedy, Fantasy
Cast: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Sam Richardson, Liza Koshy, Will Forte, Colman Domingo, Jaboukie Young-White, Nicole Byer, Jane Fonda
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is an upcoming American computer-animated coming-of-age fantasy action-comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is directed by Kirk DeMicco and co-directed by Faryn Pearl, from a screenplay written by DeMicco and Pam Brady, and a story by Brady, Brian C. Brown, and Elliott DiGuiseppi. The film features an ensemble voice cast including Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Sam Richardson, Liza Koshy, Will Forte, Colman Domingo, Jaboukie Young-White, Blue Chapman, Eduardo Franco, Ramona Young, Echo Kellum, Nicole Byer, and Jane Fonda. In the film, sixteen-year-old Ruby Gillman (Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but when she breaks her mother's (Collette) rule about going on the beach with any would-be friends, Ruby discovers that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas (Fonda).