Manchester Animation Festival: The Remaking of Danger Mouse

Why reboot the Danger Mouse now? Would it lives up to the expectation of the audience who have seen the original series? There are many other questions that we raised when it comes to making a remake of classic animated series. At Manchester Animation Festival, the production team of the new Danger Mouse came to talk about how they remake the films and make a fresh image of Danger Mouse that caters to present day audience.

Their reason for rebooting the series is to look for new content based on the what they remembered from the old show. Furthermore, it could potentially encourage the audience to look back and re-watch the original series. These forward looking incentives gave confidence to the team to bring back the comedic superhero series back to the television screen.

In the production stage, they took a more careful approach developing the script by having minimum 4 writers to revisit the script and make some changes to get the best outcome. The writers also need to take vulgarity and adult contents out of the film so that it is appropriate for younger audience. Main characters in the series have been redesigned and given more structure so that their shape could be consistently drawn by the animators which is necessary especially if they outsourced labour from another country.