‘Centaurworld’ Creator Megan Nicole Dong To Direct ‘Bad Fairies’ Feature For Warner Bros. And Locksmith Animation

Warner Bros. Pictures Animation has dated Bad Fairies, a new theatrical animated feature from director Megan Nicole Dong (creator of Netflix’s Centaurworld) and the U.K.’s Locksmith Animation (Ron’s Gone Wrong, Netflix’s That Christmas).

The film will open on July 23, 2027.

Here are the details they’ve released:

• The film is part of Locksmith Animation’s first-look deal with Warner Bros., which was first announced in 2019 and renewed in 2023. Warner Bros. has previously announced that they are developing The Lunar Chronicles, based on Marissa Meyer’s novels, as part of the same deal.
• DNEG Animation (Nimona, Garfield) is producing the film’s animation.
• The film’s logline: “Bad Fairies is a subversive musical comedy set in contemporary London about a badass gang of fairies who break every rule in the book.”
• Dong is directing the film from a screenplay by Deborah Frances-White, creator and host of popular podcast The Guilty Feminist.
• Carolyn Soper (Bolt, Tangled, Sherlock Gnomes) is producing the film. Other key talent on the film: heads of story Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt (creators of Netflix’s We Lost Our Human and Nickelodeon’s Pinky Malinky), character designer Uwe Heidschötter (That Christmas), cinematographer James C.J. Williams (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Nimona), and editor Sim Evan-Jones (Shrek, Shrek 2, Shaun the Sheep Movie).
• Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, co-creators of the Tony Award-winning musical Six and the forthcoming musical Why Am I So Single, will write the film’s songs. Grammy-nominated composer Isabella Summers (aka The Machine of Florence & the Machine), will write the score and produce the songs.