Huevocartoon, a Mexican studio known for its animated egg films, is preparing for its first live-action project. The film will be titled “Ducks Overboard” and will revolve around a group of unsuccessful synchronized swimming men. Adal Ramones will lead the cast.
The story has an international journey: it began as a Swedish documentary, then it was adapted to film by French producers (premiered in Cannes 2018) and later the British made their own version. Ramones and Huevocartoon acquired the license for the British version to bring it to Spanish for the first time, with the support of Elefantec, Pepe Bastón’s company, responsible for films such as “Do you want to be my son?” and “Operation Merry Christmas.”
“We and I bought the Huevocartoon license and we already have the money from various parties, we are waiting for the latest, now it is in the hands of Pepe. I already warned that this year I no longer have space —laughs—, so I think we will throw it away for next year,” said Ramones.
Rodolfo Rivapalacio, from Huevocartoon, will be the main director. His brother Gabriel will accompany him as co-director. Gabriel explained that the script is already ready and that this bet is safer for his live action debut.
“The script is already polished and is spectacular. It is a slightly safer bet because since it is our first feature film in live action, the distributing studios look at you with the look of: ‘ah, son, you are very good at animation’, but how about live action? Better something safe—in history—right?”, he pointed out.
Regarding direction, he added: “In animation I take the lead a little more, my brother helps me more like a co-director, but here in live action it’s just his thing, so he’s the director and I’m the co-director. We already have the casting, but we don’t have it yet —laughs—, it will be announced.”
Huevocartoon has been one of the strong brands of Mexican animation since 2005, when it launched “A movie of eggs” after its success on the internet. In total he has produced three feature films for cinema, adding more than 8 million viewers, and two more in streaming. They had previously tried to create a live-action vampire project, but it did not prosper.
“Al agua patos” will mark Adal Ramones’ first leading role in a comedy feature film. Previously he had important roles in “Santos peregrinos”, “Kings against Santa” and the drama “Martin at dawn”.
