Animators and filmmakers Victor Maldonado and Alfredo Torres are teaming up again for Netflix’s Super Giant Robot Brothers, one of several animated series announced by the streamer as part of its 2022 slate.
This action-comedy animated series follows two giant robots who discover they are brothers as they help defend Earth from the forces of intergalactic evil. It will be directed by Oscar-winning Pixar veteran Mark Andrews (Brave). The Netflix series will be produced in partnership with Reel FX Originals (The Book of Life, Rise of the Guardians).
Super Giant Robot Brothers will be executive produced by showrunner Tommy Blacha (Metalocalypse, Moonbeam City). Maldonado and Torres will also serve as exec producers, and so will Jared Mass and Steve O’Brien from Reel FX Originals.
Super Giant Robot Brothers will be the third Netflix series in which the Spanish pair works. The Los Angeles-based filmmakers have directed three episodes each of Love, Death & Robots, a Primetime Emmy Award-winning animated series whose stories could be described more like a collection of unique, unrelated short films. Also, both worked in the Guillermo Del Toro created 2016 series Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, produced by DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You Productions. This series’ episode “Win, Lose or Draal” won the animation duo an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production.
Additionally, Maldonado and Torres worked as animation segment directors in the multiple award-winning drama A Monster Call by Spanish director J.A. Bayona, starring Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson. The 2016 Focus Pictures film won nine Goyas, Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars.
Maldonado and Torres’ seemingly crossing paths in Hollywood is no accident. Since the late 2000s, they’ve been members of the Barcelona-based Headless Productions, which produced the 2007 Goya Award-winning animated family feature Nocturna about an orphan boy who is afraid of the dark.
Super Giant Robot Brothers is part of Netflix’s growing slate of animated series that includes the recently launched City of Ghosts from Elizabeth Ito, Kid Cosmic from Craig McCracken and upcoming series Centaurworld from Megan Nicole Dong, Ridley Jones and Ada Twist, Scientist from Chris Nee and Maya and the Three from Jorge Gutierrez, among others.
Featured Photo: Super Giant Robot Brothers (Credit: Netflix)
