
An icon of Australian children’s entertainment, Blinky Bill—a mischievous but environmentally conscientious koala—is the latest enduring and beloved character to get the glossy CG treatment in a new big screen outing.
A new teaser trailer provides a first glimpse of Blinky Bill: The Movie, and of Blinky himself (voiced by True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten) on his outback quest to find his missing father.
Blinky Bill is a co-production between Belgium’s Studio100 and Australia’s Flying Bark Productions (formerly Yoram Gross Film Studios). Announcing the film in 2014, producer Barbara Stephen promised that the film would “introduce a whole new generation to Blinky Bill and his Australian bush friends.” The film, directed by animation veteran Deane Taylor (a longtime Hanna-Barbera artist and art director on The Nightmare Before Christmas), is budgeted at under US$15 million.