A24 has brought together an all-star cast for Isaiah Saxon’s debut feature and fantasy epic, The Legend of Ochi. Based on Saxon’s original characters, world, and screenplay, the upcoming animated film brings together A24 favourite Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson (Chernobyl), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things, the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife) and Helena Zengel, recently seen opposite Tom Hanks in Netflix’s period adventure News of the World. 

The Legend of Ochi follows a young girl (Zengel) who runs away from home and learns to communicate with an elusive species known as Ochi. Though little more is yet known about the project, insider sources told Deadline the film is “a throwback to old-school pre-Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson pics” and that “execs were so blown away by the world Saxon created that A24 jumped at the chance” to produce.

The Legend of Ochi marks A24’s first venture into animated feature films, an exciting development for the indie darling studio that gifted us such gems as The Lighthouse, Hereditary, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Climax. As always, more news as we get it.