Netflix has a one -year hook in the animation department, with the long -awaited edition of the living legend Gendy Tartakovski on 2 -D animated feature for adults “fixed"And the cultural sensation "KPOP Demon Hunters" becomes Netflix's most watched film ever. Now, they are ready to publish the completely original animated feature "in your dreams", and looks like another hit in making. The film whispered to us with Stevie (expressed by Ololi Joang-Rapport) and her little brother Eliot (Elias Jansen), who broke her head in a wild dream of a mission to find the constantly suppressing Sandman-myside figure that she can make ... Their journey carries them through all sorts of bizarre and strange landscapes, drawn directly from the awkward corners of the imagination (and slightly creeping corners of nightmares).

Driving marking is Eliot's wisecracking, without nonsense stuffed giraffe, balloons Tony (expressions by Craig Robinson), which can only steal the whole show. While the first coach trailer fell into synchronization with this year's Annness International Animation Film Festival, I was given the extended scenes during Netflix's private event. Director Alex Wu, making his debut in operation, shared the trip with the jaw From working with giants for animation to start your own movie with the Kuku studio. He and producer Tim Jan gave him /the film to look at how the film gathered and gave us many reasons to be excited about the film's debut in November 2025.

They always say to write what you know, and for Alex Wu, "in your dreams" comes from his experiences as a child. "When I was like maybe six or seven years, my mother left for a little bit, and obviously it was difficult for me and my brother," he tells us. "We teamed up together and tried all such rabbit schemes, to try to get our parents back together, and it was a kind of great inspiration for this film." Wu also mentioned that he was inspired by films like "Parental Trap" when it stimulates these schemes, and fortunately, his parents are still together today and have been married for 50 years.

But perhaps the greatest honor is that the beloved, disgusting, disgusting Sidekic, balloons Tony, was also inspired by Wu's childhood. "My brother used to have this stuffed animal that had this truly gross stain on the back," Wu said. "We called him a bear with a bear, because you can imagine where the stain is set." Wu wanted to accept the children's tradition of stuffed animals that we all wanted to death and knew that the film needed one of those characters to help Stevie and Eliot on their journey. "Tony balloons really need to be the kind of subconscious of Eliot, kind of his ID card," Wu explained. Like someone who has spent my formative years working my personality by embodiment of my Barbis With my different thoughts and feelings ... I get it.

Animated films Known take a long time to finishAnd "in your dreams" is no different. Alex Wu, Stanley Moore and Tim Jan founded the Kuku studio in 2016 and spent their first year of brains in the types of animated projects they wanted to do. One of the ideas that came from that was what would become "in your dreams". According to Wu, "we set it through the city and no one bought it, so we put it on the shelf, and then we did our first show, which is" Go! Go! Corey Carson ", and it lasted for two or three years." But about 2020, Netflix started investing a lot of original programming and asked if people had " Jongernout took the project. Production began about two months before the start of Kovid-19 production, and was really in the dense of that from spring 2020 to the end of 2024. It only proves that the great idea will not really pass unbreakable; We may simply have to wait for the right time.

And Netflix wanted the project exactly as it is. As Wu tells me during our one-to-one interview, "I think no other studio would make this film, at least not the way we did it." Many of the studio that showed the story to want some of the country of dreams as a breakfast city, but were not so sold to the family drama in the heart of the story. "I was like," what? This is the whole reason that the story exists, as you can't have just a bunch of foam and there is no substance. " "Wu says Netflix shows great leadership in the industry not only leads an original film, but also allowing them to craft all the story that is not afraid to deal with a challenging theme.

"In Your Dreams" boasts fun needle drops from groups like Outkast and Eurythmics, as well as an original result from the fertile composer Johnon Demom. But the real excitement is that there will be an original song performed by Simu Liu and Emmy's award -winning Christine Millii, who expresses the parents of Stevie and Eliot's musicians. "Simu and Christine actually sing it. They perform it," Wu explained. "And I don't know if you know, but Christine is like an amazing singer. Simu is actually very, very good. So we are excited to hear his performance."

Most people probably already know that Liu has Kenegia thanks to his performance like One of Kens at Greta Gervig's "Barbie", But the general audience is still slow to find out that the woman brilliantly brought Sofia Falcone to life in the hit series HBO Penguin is a gifted vocal. The millionths starred in the original, the award -winning Tony Award -winning Broadway Production of "Once". You haven't lived until you heard her sing "Hill" or "slowly falling" with Steve Casi. Listen, thanks later, and then excite this new song that we are yet to hear.

What I found the most refreshing during the conversation with Wu is that he said he wanted to make sure the story had never talked to the young audience. "You know, I think kids, they want to know the truth of things, they want to know the truth of the world, and the truth of the world is that it's not always that simple, and there are many challenging things," he tells me. "I think if we don't give them that in the form of movies, they will find it elsewhere, and that may explain why children go to YouTube and social media because maybe the protectors of those formats are much wider because they are newer media."

Wu believes the occupation is to try to get to know the audience where they are and what they are looking for, and that was a great priority in writing the story. "What we tried to do with this film is not to talk to the kids, but to tell them," Hey, this is at least this was my life, it's probably what your life is, so if it resonates with me, it will probably resonate with you, "he says.

Because technological oligarchs continue to try to convince the world that artificial intelligence, specifically, the generative AI, is a necessary part of all our lives (spoiler warning: not), creatives withdraw against normalization. At the moment, Pennai is spending $ 30 million on an animated film called "Criterz" That, despite (disappointing) the writers of "Paddington 3" on the script, look as a result of the curse of the failed witch. Fortunately, the team behind "In Your Dreams" assures us that there is no AI in the movie, because ... well, Ice Cube said best in his episode of "Studio", So I'll let him talk.

AI of this caliber is only available for last year or so - when "in your dreams" was, for the most part, it ended - even if they He wanted To use AI, the technology wasn't there yet. Even better, they don't ever You want to use AI, because it is a kind of defeat on the whole purpose of animation. "There is just something about aesthetics that I don't like, and obviously, the process is not very human," Wu explains. "The whole point of making art is to bring the human side and the human soul into the work, and I feel like AI can not do it. So, yes, we do not use it at all." And the world is better for that.

"In your dreams it is set for a limited theater edition on November 7, 2025, before the announcement of Netflix on November 14, 2025.