Dana Terrace, creator of witchy fantasy cartoon The Owl House, has a new show on the horizon and it looks sick as hell.
Petrana Radulovic is an entertainment reporter specializing in animation, fandom culture, theme parks, Disney, and young adult fantasy franchises.
Knights of Guinevere comes from Glitch Productions, and is headed by Terrace and fellow former Owl House writers John Bailey Owen and Zach Marcus. The first teaser for the sci-fi psychological thriller showcases a peaceful sleeping woman in a fairytale setting. Then, she twitches and the scene sharply changes to an eerie-looking sci-fi room, where a robotic woman spasms on an examination table — before switching back to that serene fairytale world. Color me intrigued!
Glitch Productions is the Australian animation studio behind viral phenomenon The Amazing Digital Circus, which follows a young woman trapped in a strange virtual reality at the whims of a mercurial AI. After the pilot episodes debuted in 2023, it quickly became the most-viewed animation pilot on YouTube. The Amazing Digital Circus hit Netflix last October. Knights of Guinevere will be the studio’s first 2D animated show.
The studio’s penchant for quirky shows that appeal to older teens and young adults seems like the perfect place for Terrace’s post-Disney career. Terrace left Disney after The Owl House ended with a truncated third season, as executives at Disney decided to not fully renew the show.
“At the end of the day, there are a few business people who oversee what fits into the Disney brand and one day one of those guys decided TOH didn’t fit that brand,” wrote Terrace in a Reddit AMA thread. “The story is serialized (BARELY compared to any average anime lmao), our audience skews older, and that just didn’t fit this one guy’s tastes. That’s it! Ain’t that wild? Really grinds my guts, boils my brain, kicks my shins, all the things. It sucks but it is what it is.”
I, for one, am excited to see what Terrace and the other former Owl House writers can do when they’re not bound by the corporate machinations of the Walt Disney empire.
There is no set release date just yet for Knights of Guinevere (the website page says it’ll come when it’s finished, with the pilot hopefully arriving later this year).
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