FOR ‘OFFICE’ HUNK, CIRCUS IS COMING
‘Animal Crackers’ stars Krasinski, wife Blunt
While we’re still awaiting “The Office” vet and Newton native
John Krasinski and his wife Emily Blunt’s first on-camera movie together, we were given a taste of their acting chemistry thanks to the release of the official trailer for the upcoming animated film “Animal Crackers.”
The movie, which is being put out by Blue Dream Studios, follows Owen (voiced by Krasinski) and Zoe Huntington (voiced by Blunt with an American accent), who are sick of their mundane existences. Luckily, their lives get a punch of excitement when Owen inherits a circus from a long-lost uncle who passed away.
But it isn’t a basket of rainbows and sunshine: The circus isn’t making any money and is drawing smaller and smaller crowds. That all changes when Owen finds a box of magical animal crackers that lets the possessor turn into any animal in the box.
In addition to Krasinski and Blunt, the rest of the voiceover cast is oddly stacked. Sir Ian
McKellen lends his pipes for Horatio P. Huntington, the malicious uncle who’s trying to snatch the circus from its beneficiaries. Danny DeVito voices the clown Chesterfield, whose appearance will induce nightmares among those who are even mildly creeped out by clowns. Other notables include Sylvester Stallone, Raven-Symone, Patrick Warburton and Gilbert Gottfried. The movie premiered last month at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and we commoners can catch it in theaters beginning Sept. 1. Come 2018, we’ll see Krasinski and Blunt star with one another in the movie “A Quiet Place.” It will be our local guy’s major directorial debut.
Despite both appearing in “The Muppets” in 2011, the husband-wife duo never actually shared scenes , making “A Quiet Place” the first film where they’ll both be simultaneously on screen. And we ’re stoked.
The plot for the movie is still under wraps and shooting is slated to kick off this fall. Not that we’re experts, but we’d wager a bet that “A Quiet Place” — which has been dubbed a “supernatural thriller” — is going to be a touch different than the circus of a film that’s hitting screens in September.