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A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night with his new friend: a giant, smiling creature named Dark.
Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
- Orion (voice): Jacob Tremblay
- Dark (voice): Paul Walter Hauser
- Sweet Dreams (voice): Angela Bassett
- Adult Orion (voice): Colin Hanks
- Sleep (voice): Natasia Demetriou
- Unexplained Noises (voice): Golda Rosheuvel
- Insomnia (voice): Nat Faxon
- Quiet (voice): Aparna Nancherla
- Light (voice): Ike Barinholtz
- Orion’s Mom (voice): Carla Gugino
- Orion’s Dad (voice): Matt Dellapina
- Tycho (voice): Nick Kishiyama
- Hypatia (voice): Mia Akemi Brown
- Adult Hypatia (voice): Shannon Chan-Kent
- Richie Panici (voice): Jack Fisher
- Narrator (voice): Werner Herzog
- Lisa (voice): Sky Alexis
- Woman at the Drive-In (voice): Hira Ambrosino
- Man at the Drive-In (voice): Yoshi Ando
- Mrs. Spinoza (voice): Larisa Asuaje
- Irene’s Boss / Cucumber Dentist / Soda / Insomnia Guy 1 (voice): Sean Charmatz
- Stray Cat / Insomnia Guy 2 (voice): Walt Dohrn
- Adult Sally (voice): Ren Hanami
- Irene (voice): Amy Hill
- Irene’s Daughter / Insomnia Girl (voice): Alyssa Lee
- Scared Child (voice): Noah McCown
- Sally (voice): Shino Nakamichi
- Irene’s Coworker / Mom / Juice Box / Insomnia Teacher (voice): Aliki Theofilopoulos
- Insomnia Man (voice): Toru Uchikado
Film Crew:
- Writer: Charlie Kaufman
- Book: Emma Yarlett
- Director: Sean Charmatz
- Producer: Peter McCown
- Executive Producer: Walt Dohrn
- Executive Producer: Bonnie Arnold
- Production Designer: Tim Lamb
- Art Direction: Christine Bian
- Head of Story: Adam Rosette
- Head of Animation: Hans Dastrup
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tim Nielsen
- Supervising Animator: Nik Ranieri
- Supervising Animator: Shawn Krause
- Supervising Sound Editor: Steve Slanec
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Brandon Proctor
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Nathan Nance
- Original Music Composer: Kevin Lax
- Original Music Composer: Robert Lydecker
- Editor: Kevin Sukho Lee
- Story Artist: Leah Artwick
- Story Artist: Alex Avagimian
- Story Artist: Joe Bernados
- Story Artist: Lyle Nagy
- Story Artist: Kent Osborne
- Story Artist: Jordan Rosato
- Production Coordinator: Janie Kahan
- Associate Editor: Michael Pedraza
- Assistant Editor: Dylan Stayman
- Assistant Editor: Keith Bodmer
- Assistant Editor: Eric Hendricks
- Production Coordinator: Claire Liu
- Production Designer: Timothy Lamb
- Character Designer: Jesse Aclin
- Character Designer: Elaine Choi
- Character Designer: Ryan Matias
- Character Designer: Joe Pitt
- Visual Development: Guillaume Fesquet
- Animation: Emily Tetri
- Visual Development: Miho Tomimasu
- Matte Painter: Kevin Turcotte
- Production Coordinator: Mallory Quagliato
- Production Assistant: Brittany Ramirez
- Animation Supervisor: Carla Lutz
- Animation: Julien Bocabeille
- Animation: Greg Sharp
- In Memory Of: Meghan Noyes
- Production Assistant: Amanda Lennes
- Line Producer: Ashley Laidlaw
- Production Manager: Kyle Hancher
- Finance: Robert Dudban
- Production Accountant: Mila Montano
- CG Supervisor: Ryan Munk
- Animation Supervisor: Ernest Chan
- Line Producer: Brent Hutchins
- Production Manager: Candice Ray
- Production Manager: Kristin Risinger
- Production Coordinator: Zachary Joel Johnson
- Production Coordinator: Emily Ryker
- VFX Supervisor: Brent Tyler
- Modelling Supervisor: Steven Tarin
- Rigging Supervisor: Belal Ballout
- Generalist: Natalie Jimenez
- Effects Supervisor: Ross Gibson
- Compositing Supervisor: David Lee-DuVoisin
- Executive Producer: Andrea Miloro
- Executive Producer: Adrianna A.J. Cohen
- Executive Producer: Russell Tracy Jr
- Line Producer: Natalia Lasota
- Line Producer: Murali Chinnappa
- Producer: Ravi Kiran Nunna
- Production Manager: Charan Paruchuri
- Production Manager: Kartheek Dugyala
- Production Manager: Guru Gnasasambandan
- Production Coordinator: Rahul Gattu
- Production Coordinator: Sandra Geiben
- Production Coordinator: Swati Pattnaik
- Production Assistant: Bandana Panigrahi
- Production Assistant: Masool Afreen
- Production Assistant: Neelam Kishan
- Creative Director: Manoj Menon
- Modelling Supervisor: Francis Rajeev A.
- Modelling Supervisor: Rakesh Acharya B.
- Modeling: Robin Bharat
- Modeling: Samir Rout
- Modeling: Suraj Kumar Raut
- Rigging Supervisor: Dilip Kumar Y Bhandi
- Animation Supervisor: Deepak Ganguly
- Animation Supervisor: Kaustav Chakravarty
- Animation Supervisor: Rubul Das
- Lead Animator: Deepanita Manna
- Lead Animator: Shiladitya Gupta
- Lead Animator: Vedanth Rajan
- Animation: Bruno Etchepare
- Animation: Gopi Gudelli
- Animation: Arnap Sarkar
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Dhiraj Prasad
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Kannan Logiah
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Sai Kumar Barnala
- Visual Effects: Kunal Gupta
- Visual Effects: Shahwaz Ansari
- Visual Effects: Yugesh Kampalli
- Compositing Supervisor: Vinodh Prasanna
- Compositing Supervisor: Parthiban Sundaram
- Compositing Supervisor: Sabyasachi Chatterjee
- Compositing Artist: Lalit Karel
- Compositing Artist: Bhrat Kabra
- Compositing Artist: Chintu Kumar
- CG Supervisor: Babulu P George
- CG Supervisor: Naresh Gunda
- Sound Designer: Jessey Drake
- Sound Designer: Jeff Halbert
- Sound Designer: Marc Schmidt
- Sound Effects: Laria Martinez-Deleon
- Sound Editor: Matthew Festle
- Sound Effects: Cat Gensler
- Sound Effects: Grace Stenland
- Foley Mixer: Roberto D. Alegria
- Foley Artist: Vincent Deng
- Foley Artist: Laura Macias
- Dialogue Editor: Jason Oliver
- Post Production Supervisor: Patricia Burgos
- Online Editor: Ian Michael Hurley
- Post Production Coordinator: Emily Horton
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: D.J. Lynch
- Supervising Sound Editor: Rob McIntyre
- Casting: Ania O’Hare
- Casting: Katie Galvan
- In Memory Of: Noelle McCown
- Associate Producer: Kristin Sando
- Visual Effects Supervisor: M. Scott McKee
- Production Manager: Killian Gray
- Production Supervisor: Aubin Schuler
- Animation Director: Dipika Das
- Additional Writing: Lloyd Taylor
- Additional Writing: Brandon Sawyer
- Music: Vivian Aguiar-Buff
- Music: Matt Manna
- Music: Alexandra Nickson
- Story Artist: Matthew Bordenave
- Story Artist: Austen Aevery Huens
- Story Artist: Kaan Kalyon
- Story Artist: Jon Magram
- Story Artist: Gaëlle Beerens
- Story Artist: Tom Caulfield
- Story Artist: Eric Elrod
- Story Artist: Nathan Gelgud
- Story Artist: James P. Gibson
- Story Artist: Zesung Kang
- Story Artist: Hanna Kim
- Story Artist: Johane Matte
- Story Artist: Catherine Yuh Rader
- Story Artist: Justin Ridge
- Story Artist: Jessica Kaori Stanley
- Character Designer: Bob Flynn
- Character Designer: Nico Marlet
- Visual Development: John-Paul Balmet
- Visual Development: Pablo J. Rivera
- Visual Development: Andy Schuhler
- Visual Development: Chris Sears
- Visual Development: Elaine Wengi Wu
- Visual Development: Katy Wu
- Visual Development: Lauren Zurcher
- Visual Development: Alfonso Blaas Nacle
- Visual Development: Marcos Elizalde
- Visual Development: Gijsbrecht Evens
- Visual Development: Kirsten Kawamura
- Visual Development: Leo Matsuda
- Visual Development: Ruben Perez
- Visual Development: Ritchie Sacilioc
- Other: Pedro Della Conti
- Other: Dor Shamir
- Animation: Abhishek Mukherjee
- Animation: Anand Avira
- Animation: Aniket Suresh Marathe
- Animation: Anuska Mondal
- Animation: Anuska Poddar
- Animation: Aravind Kumar Kommoju
- Animation: Anarb Halder
- Animation: Anarp Sarkar
- Animation: Atanu Patra
Movie Reviews:
- Chris Sawin: The most significant setback that _Orion and the Dark_ has is that it suffers from being a Netflix film. The humor falls flat and, while there is some creativity, the film reminds you of other cinematic endeavors it borrows from. It doesn’t help that the animation is bland. Some scenes in the film look unfinished because of a lack of natural shadows or depth in the human characters. _Orion and the Dark_ will likely be dumped onto the platform and forgotten about in a matter of weeks.
- **Full review:** https://bit.ly/OrionDark
- Manuel São Bento: FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/orion-and-the-dark-review-a-story-about-accepting-our-fears/
- “Orion and the Dark preserves the essence and messages of the original tale about understanding and accepting our fears as something that characterizes us as human beings.
- Charlie Kaufman expands the story with narrative complexities that, aside from unnecessarily confusing structural details, thematically enrich the overall film. The mix of 2D and 3D animation makes the visual experience captivating and warm, accompanied by an equally lovely score and competent vocal performances.
- An easy recommendation for families and children around the world.”
- Rating: B