Whitest Kids U Know Wrapping Production on Animated Movie Mars, Final WKUK Project After Trevor Moores Death – Variety

Cult sketch group Whitest Kids U Know has had countless collaborations, most notably a five-season run of their eponymous IFC series. Their most recently announced project is an animated film named Mars, which was in development before the 2021 death of member Trevor Moore.

During the press cycle of his latest directorial effort, Barbarian, WKUK member Zach Cregger gave an update on the project.

We had written a movie called Mars and the plan was always for it to be an animated feature, Cregger said. Before Trevor died, we recorded all of his dialogue, and weve crowdfunded the budget for this movie. Its like $300,000, a little more. And were currently making it, I think were going to wrap it up in about a month or so and I think its great.

Without Trevor, theres no Whitest Kids, he continued. So this will be our final thing and Im really proud of it and Im really happy to put it out there.

Prior to his death, Moore teased the plot of the film in an interview.

Its about a couple of billionaires race to put a city on Mars, he said. Thats the kind of line that we like to hit, where its like, alright, were not talking about Elon Musk, were not talking about [Richard] Branson or [Jeff] Bezos or any of these guys, but were going to talk about this. Whats happening in society right now is like all these rich guys are about to start colonizing the moon because we think thats still going to be an issue 20 years from now. Its not going to age itself out quickly.

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