Some of the central cast for our Penguins of Madagascar reboot pitch, we got plenty of returning faces and some new ones.
Stylistically we envisioned the show as 2d animated with clean, lineless, characters, similar to the style of the Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show and Carmen Sandiego, while also taking influence from some of the old Penguins comics.
The Penguins look mostly the same, with the exception of their flippers, which now include a more realistic white underside. This choice was encouraged by a friend of mine who helped with the design process as it gave them a more unique flare, and would help make the flippers stand out due to the lack of lines.
The lemurs reprise their roles from the 2008 series, being the Penguin's pesky neighbors. Our show was more action focused then the original, so the lemurs played more second fiddle to the Penguins, but our season pitch still had several Julien focused episodes, and one Maurice heavy one.
As much as I love the original show, it is undoubtedly very male centric, so one of our goals was to really highlight Marlene. She is just as competent as the Penguins (maybe even more so), and could be part of their unit if she wanted, but instead she would rather do her own thing. She has three episodes highly focused on her, one where she hosts a disastrous film festival with Kowalski, one where she has to save the Penguins’ butts on a mission gone wrong, and our season finale where she has to team up with Skipper to help save New York (and maybe the world).
We of course got Hans, an old rival of Skipper who goes way back with him. Hans is a total diva and only has one goal in mind, being Skipper’s arch enemy. And funding his expensive taste in lattes.
A new character is Yuki. Neighbor to the Penguins, she is a talented and hardworking Japanese crane working remotely for the tech company Toggle. No one knows she’s really a bird and when she is asked to come to San Francisco in person to accept a big promotion, she must enlist the help of the Penguins to conceal her true avian identity.
Ah, Dr. Blowhole, Skipper’s arch enemy. Our show was pitched as a spiritual successor to the original Nick series, and not a direct sequel. One of the changes is that the other Penguins don’t know who Blowhole is. This allows the dastardly dolphin to manipulate a certain egghead Penguin to do his bidding, culminating in an explosive and grand season finale. When we pitched we were very open to any changes DreamWorks might want to make, but our one hill to die on was that Dr. Blowhole stays.
And lastly we got Nicolas, Catilina, and Miguel. Originally envisioned as henchmen to Blowhole, these three took on a life of their own. After being priced out of their beach in San Francisco, these dastardly Sea Lions come back for revenge, using sea mines to destroy the Golden Gate Bridge and hopefully make the city undesirable to those pesky humans.
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