Film The Magician's Elephant

The Magician's Elephant is a 2023 animated fantasy adventure film directed by Wendy Rogers, written by Martin Hynes and produced by Julia Pistor.

Based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, the film features the voices of Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Natasia Demetriou, Benedict Wong, Miranda Richardson and Aasif Mandvi. Animated by Animal Logic, the film was distributed by Netflix and released on March 17, 2023.

The Magician's Elephant
Film The Magician's Elephant
Official release poster
Directed byWendy Rogers
Screenplay byMartin Hynes
Based onThe Magician's Elephant
by Kate DiCamillo
Produced byJulia Pistor
Starring
Edited byRobert Fisher Jr.
Music byMark Mothersbaugh
Production
company
Pistor Productions
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • March 17, 2023 (2023-03-17)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Australia
LanguageEnglish

Premise

Peter is searching for his long-lost sister Adele. A fortune teller tells him to find a magician's elephant.

Voice cast

Production

On August 17, 2009, 20th Century Fox announced that Martin Hynes would adapt a novel titled The Magician's Elephant, which was yet to be released, into a feature film. In that same announcement, former Nickelodeon Movies producer Julia Pistor was also confirmed as the producer of the film. On December 15, 2020, after languishing into development hell for a number of years, it was announced that Pistor had taken the property to Netflix who acquired the film rights to the book and screenplay to develop the animated feature film, with Animal Logic in Sydney working on the animation. In the same announcement, Noah Jupe, Benedict Wong, Pixie Davies, Sian Clifford, Brian Tyree Henry, Mandy Patinkin, Natasia Demetriou, Aasif Mandvi, Miranda Richardson, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste were all cast to star in the film.

Release

The Magician's Elephant was released on March 17, 2023.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 67% of 37 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Always well-intentioned and once-in-a-blue-moon compelling, The Magician's Elephant is an adaptation with a message about believing in yourself unveiled with more whimsy than magic." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 53 out of 100, based on seven critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.

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