Amazon Studios Also Announces First Look
Deal with Critical Role to Develop New Series to Premiere
Exclusively on Prime Video
(NASDAQ:AMZN) — Amazon Prime Video, along with Critical Role,
today announced the service will be the exclusive streaming home
for the upcoming animated series Critical Role: The Legend of Vox
Machina, based on the adventures and characters of Critical Role, a
leading story-driven and world-building digital media brand. Amazon
Studios has ordered two seasons of the series and has also closed a
first-look deal with Critical Role to develop new series to
premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and
territories worldwide. This content agreement builds on the
long-standing engagement Critical Role has had with Amazon’s
live-streaming service Twitch, where they have broadcast their
wildly successful live role-playing show since 2015.
Earlier this year, Critical Role launched The Legend of Vox
Machina as a Kickstarter campaign for a 22-minute animated special
produced by Titmouse, reaching their original funding goal within
minutes. The campaign continued to gain traction thanks to Critical
Role’s passionate fanbase, becoming the most-funded TV, film or
animated project in Kickstarter history and raising over $11.3M,
enough to fund a 10-episode season. With this new agreement, Prime
Video will build on that record-breaking support, ordering an
additional 14 episodes, for a total of 24 episodes across two
seasons, to stream exclusively on the service.
Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina follows a group of
second-rate, drunken adventurers on a quest to save the realm from
terrifying monsters and dark magical forces, only to discover they
become a found family in the process. It's an adult animated
action-comedy series in the fantasy universe of, and starring
original characters from, Critical Role.
“We were absolutely floored by the level of enthusiasm we
received on the Kickstarter campaign, and now we can deliver
exactly what the fans wanted, and MORE,” said Sam Riegel and Travis
Willingham, cast members of Critical Role and executive producers
on the series. “Teaming with Prime Video to deliver the series to
fans across the globe is exciting and surreal -- and we’re psyched
to be able to tell even more stories with not just one, but two
12-episode seasons!”
“Critical Role blazed a new trail for original digital content,
with fresh new voices and humor that earned devoted fans around the
world, as evidenced by their wildly successful Kickstarter
campaign,” said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. “We’re
thrilled to work with the whole team to bring The Legend of Vox
Machina, and new Critical Role series, to our Prime Video
customers.”
Chris Prynoski, Titmouse president and founder added, “I’ve been
wanting to make an animated show based on fantasy role playing
games since I was 1st level. I’m overjoyed for Titmouse to join the
Critical Role adventuring party to slay this beast alongside the
mighty Amazon army!”
Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina stars the Critical Role
cast of Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien,
Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham, who
are reprising their roles; they will also serve as executive
producers, alongside Brandon Auman (Star Wars: Resistance) and
Chris Prynoski (Metalocalypse), with Sung Jin Ahn (Niko and the
Sword of Light) joining as supervising director. Emmy award-winning
studio Titmouse is the animation partner. Critical Role is
represented by CAA, who helped broker the deal.
When we meet the members of Vox Machina in Critical Role: The
Legend of Vox Machina, they’re a rowdy, ragtag assortment of swords
and wands-for-hire. Seven wandering dumbasses who care more about
easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But
when their home city of Emon is attacked by a horrific monster,
they realize they are the only ones capable of avenging their
neighbors and restoring justice. United as Protectors of the Realm,
we follow Vox Machina as they venture beyond the walls of Emon to
battle even darker forces across the kingdom. Throughout the first
season of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina, they will face
undead giants, help overthrow a sinister necromancer, and confront
a powerful curse that has taken root inside their own group.
Through it all, they learn how to function as a team, and discover
they’re much more than that: they’re family.
About Critical Role
Critical Role is the most popular story-driven and
world-building digital media brand in the world. What started in
2012 as a roleplaying game between friends has evolved into a
multiplatform entertainment phenomenon with a variety of shows,
including the flagship show Critical Role, comic books, graphic
novels, animation, live performances, podcasts, fan art and more. A
passionate and engaged community tunes in each week to watch their
favorite storytellers take on new adventures led by veteran voice
actor Matthew Mercer and composed of other well-known voice actors
Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam
Riegel, Laura Bailey and Liam O'Brien. Engrossed in the stories,
characters and camaraderie, over half a million regular viewers
watch every week and hundreds of thousands more per month continue
to discover Critical Role for the first time. For more information
on Critical Role go to www.critrole.com.
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About Titmouse
Titmouse is a full‐service, award-winning animation production
company. Our artist-run studios in Los Angeles, New York City, and
Vancouver keep 700 of the most talented people in the industry
(that are guaranteed 100% human) employed and pushing creative
boundaries. Writers, producers, directors, storyboard artists,
animators, compositors, editors and VR artists are all right here,
in house. Its state‐of‐the‐art sound studio is where many of our TV
shows, films, commercial work, branded and original digital content
projects are recorded. Titmouse founders Chris and Shannon Prynoski
launched Titmouse in Los Angeles, the birthplace of the American
entertainment industry. Known for series such as Venture Bros., Big
Mouth, Superjail!, Black Dynamite, Tigtone, and Metalocalypse,
Titmouse creates high-quality cartoons for all ages and interests.
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