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Opening theme | "My Year (The Re-Animated Remix)" |
Composer | Amit May Cohen |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
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Running time | 22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) |
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Release | June 28, 2024 present | –
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Zombies: The Re-Animated Series is an animated musical television series based on the Disney franchise Zombies. It is a co-production between American studio Disney Television Animation and Canadian studio Atomic Cartoons, alongside vanity card Bloor Street Productions.
Zombies: The Re-Animated Series premiered on June 28, 2024, on Disney Channel, followed by its Disney+ premiere the next day.[1][2][3]
Following graduation day at Seabrook High School, A-Spen does a time warp that enables everyone to re-do senior year together as they engage in various misadventures in Seabrook.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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Shorts | 11 | July 21, 2023 | October 28, 2023 | |
1 | TBA | June 28, 2024 | TBA |
No. | Title [6] | Original air date [6] |
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1 | "Endless Summer" | July 21, 2023 |
2 | "Solstice Slasher" | July 28, 2023 |
3 | "Grill or Be Grilled" | August 4, 2023 |
4 | "Cabin in the House" | August 11, 2023 |
5 | "ZOMBIES Summer Mini Bites" | August 28, 2023 |
6 | "Suddenly Seabrook" | September 2, 2023 |
7 | "I Think We're a Clone Now" | September 9, 2023 |
8 | "Coach's Cat" | September 16, 2023 |
9 | "Robot Space Bear" | September 23, 2023 |
10 | "Wynter Transport" | September 30, 2023 |
11 | "ZOMBIES Halloween Mini Bites" | October 28, 2023 |
No. | Title [6] | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [6] | Prod. code [6] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Re-Senior Year" | Justin Lovell | Aliki Theofilopoulos & Jack Ferraiolo | Rebecca Champagne & Stephanie Gonzaga | June 28, 2024 | 101 | N/A |
"I Scream Zoda" | Steve Rolston | Rachel McNevin | Gemma & Nick Nason | ||||
2 | "Rage Against the Vending Machine" | Justin Lovell | Joey Manderino | Rachel Colucci | June 28, 2024 | 102 | N/A |
"Young, Wild, and Free Period" | Steve Rolston | Mike Yank | Ammie Lieu-Dang & Rebecca Champagne | ||||
3 | "These Boots Were Made for Willa" | Justin Lovell | Joan Ford | River Minho Kim & Rebecca Champagne | July 6, 2024[a] | 103 | TBD |
"Double Troubled" | Steve Rolston | Elliott Maya | Alison Jensen Tsui & Nick Nason | ||||
4 | "Alien vs. Shredator" | Justin Lovell | Mike Yank | Rebecca Champagne | July 6, 2024[a] | 104 | TBD |
"A Wyatt Place" | Steve Rolston | Joey Manderino | Shawn Pedralba & Gemma | ||||
5 | "Invasion of the Bucky Snatchers" | Steve Rolston | Joan Ford | Gemma | July 13, 2024[a] | 105 | TBD |
"The Dining" | Justin Lovell | Jack Ferraiolo & Rachel McNevin | Yoshiko Aurelie Agresta | ||||
6 | "Training Dae" | Steve Rolston | Jack Ferraiolo & Rachel McNevin | Ammie Lieu-Dang & Riccardo Durante | July 13, 2024[a] | 106 | TBD |
"Youngins & Dragons" | Justin Lovell | Elliott Maya | Rachel Colucci | ||||
7 | "Foul Play" | Justin Lovell | Joey Manderino | Alison Jensen Tsui | July 20, 2024[a] | 107 | TBD |
"Catch Meat If You Can" | Steve Rolston | Mike Yank | Jeremy Bondy | ||||
8 | "When Bucky Met Barky" | Justin Lovell | Joan Ford | Jon Affolter | July 20, 2024[a] | 108 | TBD |
"The More, The Burier" | Steve Rolston | Elliott Maya | Shawn Pedralba & Gemma | ||||
9 | "No Woman BFF'd Behind" | Justin Lovell | Teresa Kale | Yoshiko Aurelie Agresta | July 27, 2024[a] | 109 | TBD |
"Pet Peeves" | Steve Rolston | Joey Manderino | Christos Rousakos | ||||
10 | "Something to Tok About" | Justin Lovell | Mike Yank | Rachel Colucci | July 27, 2024[a] | 110 | TBD |
"Last Fan Standing" | Steve Rolston | Joan Ford | Brian-Rey Ejar | ||||
11 | "Reality Check, Please!" | Justin Lovell | Elliott Maya | Oliver Hine | August 3, 2024[a] | 111 | TBD |
"Their Guy Sasquatch" | Steve Rolston | Roma Murphy | Christopher Johnson | ||||
In 2022, Descendants: Wicked World creator Aliki Theofilopoulos, and Amphibia story editor Jack Ferraiolo were approached by Disney executives to develop an animated series based on Disney Channel's Zombies franchise, which they agreed to do due to the franchise's high school setting providing multiple storytelling opportunities, having liked the Zombie films, and wanting to work together on a project.[7]
On June 15, 2022, during the Annecy Film Festival, Disney Television Animation announced development on animated series based on the Zombies franchise, titled Zombies: The Re-Animated Series, on Disney+. Writers Joseph Raso and David Light were set to return from the original trilogy as executive producers alongside Gary Marsh, Theofilopoulos and Ferraiolo.[8] Theofilopoulos and Ferraiolo also serve as showrunners for the series.[7]
The producers wanted to use the series' animated format as "[an] opportunity to push ideas conceptually and visually" within the franchise.[7] They also wanted the show to have a strong focus on its ensemble cast, drawing inspiration from shows such as New Girl and Freaks and Geeks,[7] as well as teen comedies Ferraiolo watched in his youth, wanting to "juxtapose dumb ideas with achieving a goal" much like in the latter.[9] The writers wanted the series to explore issues relatable to teenagers and "blow it out of proportion" while keeping the story grounded in "the emotional truth of being a teenager".[7]
On August 12, 2022, Meg Donelly and Milo Manheim were confirmed to be reprising their roles as Allison and Zed from the original trilogy.[2] On November 18, 2022, Theofilopoulos confirmed that Carla Jeffery would reprise her role as Bree in the series.[4] Voice recordings for the series had already began by that point.[4] In June 2023, Ariel Martin, Chandler Kinney, Pearce Joza, Trevor Tordjman, Jonathan Langdon, James Godfrey, Kylee Russell, and Terry Hu were confirmed to be reprising their roles in the series.[3] In May 2024, it was announced that Kahyun Kim would be voicing a new character named Dae.[5]
Animation services will be provided by Atomic Cartoons.[10] Matt Doering will serve as art director for the series.[11] The artists designed the characters so that they could be reminiscent of their appearance in the movies while also fitting an animated format.[9]
The series features a musical number per episode, performed by its voice cast.[5] Several songwriters from the films returned to work on the series.[12] Theofilopoulos drew inspiration from her experience in Phineas and Ferb for the show's songs, wanting to combine the humorous tone of the Phineas and Ferb songs with the musical style from the Zombies films.[9] She also drew inspiration from her experience in Descendants: Wicked World.[12]
The song "My Year" from the first film serves as the series' opening theme, with new lyrics to fit the plot of the series. The songwriters originally conceived several original songs to be used as the opening theme; the songs were ultimately used as musical numbers within the series.[12]
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