Kid Cudi Teams With Jeron Braxton On New Animated Feature ‘Slime’ Set In Dystopian Future

Rosy Cordero
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EXCLUSIVE: Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi (Entergalactic) will star in and produce the new animated feature Slime which will serve as animator Jeron Braxton’s (Baby Demon) feature directorial debut. Brian Ash (The Boondocks) penned the script and will executive produce.

The project hails from Mescudi’s production banner Mad Solar alongside Hammerstone Studios and Capstone Global.

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Slime is described as a classic monster movie decked out in fashion-forward video game skins that are wickedly satirical, scary as hell and trippy AF. In a not-too-distant, but all-too-dystopian future, Muna, an optimistic, but broke young woman, signs up for a paid medical trial. Hope turns to horror when she is unknowingly injected with a foreign creature’s slime and begins to have visions she does not understand and unleash destructive powers she cannot control.

Hunted and desperate, Muna kidnaps Glenn (Mescudi), a lab worker from the mega-corporation who injected her. Together, they go on a terrifying odyssey in search of refuge and a cure. But is it already too late to stop her from evolving into a monster, a post-human savior, or something in between?

The concept for Slime is to build a sonic/visual experience that marries Braxton’s distinct style with a trippy, elevating original soundtrack, according to the release.

“I’m always looking for what’s new and always trying to elevate what we know about music, film, TV and animation. Jeron is a powerhouse creative at the forefront of culture, pushing boundaries with everything he does. I’m grateful to have him on the team and am ready to see him bring Slime to life. Mad Solar, we here,” Mescudi shared in an exclusive statement with Deadline.

“I’m extremely excited to bring Slime to life and super appreciative to everyone around me who helped make this possible,” shared Braxton. “Animation has always been an opportunity for me to shift perspective on issues affecting Americans and more explicitly the black diaspora, and now we can use the genre of horror and cutting-edge technology to create an insane evolution for the medium.”

The film is produced by Mescudi, Karina Manashil, Dennis Cummings, Aaron Bergman, Alex Lebovici and Jon Oakes. Christian Mercuri, Courtney Chenn, Waylen Lin and Brian Ash executive produce. Mad Solar and Hammerstone Studios are the production companies. Hammerstone Studios and Capstone Global serve as financiers.

Grammy Award-winner Mescudi became a first-time Emmy nominee for his animation debut, Netflix’s Entergalactic, which premiered in 2020. Most recently, he starred in John Woo’s new feature Silent Night alongside Joel Kinnaman, Harold Torres and Catalina Sandino Moreno, in theaters now. He can also be seen as one of the leads of A24’s X, written and directed by TI West and produced by Sam Levinson. On TV, he can be seen in the feature Crater for Disney+. He is repped by WME and Three Six Zero.

Braxton is a self-taught animator/artist/music producer from Indiana who has shown his work for four of the last five years at Sundance; his short Glucose won Best Animated Short in 2018. For TV, he created a short series for Adult Swim called Baby Demon. Additionally, he’s collaborated on music videos with artists like The Weeknd, Vince Staples and Pusha T. Braxton worked with the late Virgil Abloh and Louis Vuitton on his last fashion show.

Ash is a Peabody Award-winning writer, producer and showrunner best known for his work as a co-executive producer on The Boondocks, Black Dynamite: The Animated Series and Freaknik: The Musical. Previously, he was a co-showrunner/EP on Fuse’s Sugar & Toys, a hybrid animated/live-action sketch series. In Season 2, he was the sole showrunner. He is repped by The Vigilante Company and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.

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