Hellyfish Getting the Feature Film Treatment!

Steve Barton |

Jul 23, 2015

One of our favorite short films of the last several years is without a doubt Hellyfish, and if you’ve seen it, then we don’t really have to explain ourselves. It truly speaks for itself, and we are happy to announce that it also will be a part of our upcoming anthology collection Monsterworld with Ruthless Pictures. But the good news doesn’t stop there…

From the Press Release:
Pod Intermedia LLC, a virtual global transmedia company, and the creators of the short film Hellyfish have entered into a partnership agreement to develop and produce an original live action feature film based on the wildly popular property. The partnership was announced today by Pod Intermedia producers Courtney G. Jones and Matt Berlin (CEO and CSO, respectively) and Hellyfish creators Patrick Longstreth and Robert McLean.

This announcement marks another step in Pod Intermedia’s commitment to build a portfolio of franchisable properties with global appeal. The short film serves as a proof-of-concept for the feature film about giant jellyfish monsters that take over the world, and the coming visual effects extravaganza will stick closely to the original short film’s story– with a few more surprises. The film will capture the same fun spirit of films like Piranha, Tremors, and Big Ass Spider!

“I found out about the short film on the Maxon Cinema 4D website and had to reach out to these guys to see if the rights were available. That’s how impressed I was. Matt and I saw the potential of Hellyfish right from the first frame of the short, and Patrick and Robert were open to getting it made into a feature. We all speak the same language: high-concept on a budget. To us, this is a no-brainer,” said Jones, Pod Intermedia’s CEO.

“We were very excited to learn that Pod Intermedia shares our vision for Hellyfish the feature, and we’ve had a lot of fun developing the concept with them. This partnership is exactly what we need to capture our big fish story in all its absurd outrageous glory,” says Patrick Longstreth, Hellyfish co-creator. “Honestly we couldn’t be happier. Opportunities to create something like this are why we get into filmmaking. We had A LOT of fun making the short film and can’t wait to channel that same ridiculous energy into a feature-length epic.”

Hellyfish has already garnered several film festival awards and continues to amass critical acclaim.

There is no set start date, but according to the Pod team everyone is eager to roll cameras in late 2015.

Hellyfish

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