Making Friends

Making Friends is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Sony Pictures Animation, Aleka Entertainment, and Scholastic Entertainment, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Based on Kristen Gudsnek's graphic novels of the same name, the film will be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, written by Lord & Miller, Karey Kirkpatrick, Markus Aaronbrough, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow from a story by Gudsnek and Aaron Spencer. It is set to be released in 2022.

Premise
TBA

Cast

 * Kristen Schaal as Danielle Radley
 * Chloë Grace Moretz as Madison Fontaine
 * Josh Brolin as Prince Neptune
 * Will Forte as Nick Maloney
 * Jeff Garcia as Tom Torres

Development
In February 2019, Variety reported that Aleka Entertainment had acquired the rights to the graphic novel to develop a film based off it, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller attached as directors. It was later announced in April that the film would be produced by Sony Pictures Animation, with the film being animated by Aleka Entertainment and Mikros Image, and Karey Kirkpatrick attached as one of the writers of the screenplay. Rich Moore also signed on as producer following his move from Disney to Sony Pictures Animation. The crew is working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Casting
In July 2019, it was announced that Kristen Schaal was cast Danielle Radley, alongside Chloë Grace Moretz as Madison Fontaine. Benedict Cumberbatch was originally intended to be cast as Neptune, before being replaced with Josh Brolin. The Aleka crew internally compared to Neptune to Thanos as a joke, and Aaron Spencer's tweet announcing Brolin's role as Neptune was accompanied by a drawing of Neptune with the Infinity Gauntlet by Gudsnek, as a refrence to this inside joke.