Zayn Malik is writing new music for upcoming animated characteristic “10 Lives” and is about to carry out a duet with “Bridgerton” star Simone Ashley for the movie, Variety can affirm.
Malik and Ashley additionally each star within the movie, with the previous One Direction singer taking part in tough-guy twins Cameron and Kirk whereas Ashley voices scholar Rose. Malik, who’s presently engaged on his subsequent studio album with Mercury Records, can be an government music producer on “10 Lives,” overseeing the movie’s musical artistic route.
Directed by Chris Jenkins (“Surf’s Up”), “10 Lives” tells the story of a pampered and egocentric cat who takes his many lives without any consideration. After carelessly shedding his ninth reside he begs for a second probability — and a chance to show he can study from his errors. When his want is lastly granted, nonetheless, he learns that it comes with some caveats.
Also lending their voices to the movie are Bill Nighy, Mo Gilligan, Sophie Okonedo, Dylan Llewellyn and Jeremy Swift.
“10 Lives” (courtesy of 10 Lives Productions/GFM Animation)
Guy Collins and Sean Feeney produce for 10 Lives Prods. alongside Martin Metz and Adrian Politowski for Align, Yann Zenou for Quad, Valérie d’Auteuil and André Rouleau for Caramel Films and Louis-Philippe Vermette for the Happy Producers. Robyn Klein and Jeremy Ross forged the mission whereas the animation was produced by L’Atelier Animation in Montreal.
“10 Lives,” which is able to display screen for distributors at AFM, is a GFM Animation manufacturing; GFM can be dealing with worldwide gross sales. WME Independent is repping home rights.
Casting administrators and music supervisors Robyn Klein and Jeremy Ross mentioned: “We at all times love bringing the worlds of movie and music collectively and couldn’t be extra excited that we obtained to do that with Zayn on ‘10 Lives.’ An important movie and an awesome tune come from the identical place. Combining his songwriting, performing and vocal abilities, Zayn introduced pleasure, emotion, and depth to the movie whereas connecting and highlighting all of its vital themes. This is Zayn at his best possible.”
Malik is repped by Nicola Carson of Zen Kai Management and Taryn Zimmerman. Ashley is repped by Creative Artists Agency, Identity Agency Group, R&CPMK and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light.
