Surfing’s favourite larrikin Vaughan Blakey has teamed up with filmmaker Nick Pollet to create the first-ever surf comedy in doll form. Above is the first look at their new project, ‘The Greatest Surf Movie In The Universe’. We’ve seen cameos of dolls in surf flicks but an entire production of life-like figurines? This is no doubt a first.
The six years in the making animation film is led in narration by actor Luke Hemsworth; features surfers in doll form, such as Mick Fanning, Mason Ho, Craig Anderson, Matt Wilkinson, Griffin Colapinto and Kelly Slater. We really don’t know what to expect from this one, it’s clearly going to be silly time, and we’re here for it.
Below is more of what you can expect from the plot of ‘The Greatest Surf Movie In The Universe’.
“10 years from now a virus more deadly and more contagious than anything we’ve ever seen decimates all the world’s living creatures. Facing a total extinction event, a brilliant geneticist named Dr Jonathan Figg discovers a miracle vaccine that is fast tracked into production, saving the final remnants of humanity. Unfortunately, there’s one terrible side effect-the vaccine completely erases all memory of surfing from the human mind.
“It’s a strange and abstract time as the World’s Best Surfers stumble blindly into new lives and careers oblivious to the incredible talents they once possessed.
“Sensing the total extinction of wave riding, the surf God, Huey, makes a last-ditch effort to save surfing. He scours the globe until, high on a mountain top in Tibet, he finds the one man capable of bringing surfing back from the dead.
“With his memory reinstated by Huey, it’s now up to the three Time World Champion Surfer Mick Fanning to recruit a team of the world’s best surfers (including Mason Ho, Griffin Colapinto, Jack Freestone, Craig Anderson and Matt Wilkinson) and restore the glory of surfing back into public consciousness. There’s only one way to do it and that’s to make… THE GREATEST SURF MOVIE IN THE UNIVERSE.”
The world premiere will be at Reading Cinemas, Waurn Ponds, on the 3rd of April; following that, there will be more sessions around Oz.
Click here to purchase tickets or to find more info on the sessions.
