J.J. Villard’s debut animation series for Adult Swim may have won the network its first ever Emmy for animation, in 2015, but the creator wasn’t given free reign for his follow-up show, JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales, which he produced and directed. “After King Star King, they just told me, ‘This show is way too perverted,'” he recalls. “‘You went way too far.'” Before creating the six 11-minute episodes of his latest series, Villard was told: no sexual jokes, no religious jokes and no fart and throw-up jokes. “So I was like, ‘Okay, cool.’ And then I told my writers and they’re like, ‘Well, do you want me to quit today? Because what else, what the f**k are we going to do?'”
Somehow Villard and writers James Merrill and Johnny Ryan managed to stay just within the parameters set out for them in creating...
Somehow Villard and writers James Merrill and Johnny Ryan managed to stay just within the parameters set out for them in creating...
- 7/9/2020
- by Nadia Neophytou
- Deadline Film + TV
“JJ Villard’S Fairy Tales” Synopsis “JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales” is a new, twisted, fun take on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White. The charm and cuteness of the original stories remain, but now they’ve been updated and packaged into a ball of raw, visceral, gross weirdness. The animated quarter-hour series …
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- 4/13/2020
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
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