Academy Award nominated writer of Ratatouille Jim Capobianco and producer Robert Rippberger have announced The Inventor, a stop-motion adventure film about the life of Leonardo da Vinci.
Capobianco, who is currently overseeing the animation on Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns, is set to direct the feature-length project, The Inventor, based off a script that he also penned, and it will be shot by Peter Sorg, whose credits as cinematographer include Early Man and Frankenweenie.
Alex Mandel, writer of the songs “Touch the Sky” and “Into the Open Air” from Pixar’s Academy-Award Winning Brave, is attached to compose, along with animation veteran Don Hahn (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Maleficent), as Executive Producer and Kat Alioshin, who has worked on Corpse Bride and James and the Giant Peach as the project’s Line Producer, all joining the team.
“The Inventor focuses on legacy, how you choose to live your life and how those choices influence others,” says Jim Capobianco. “It is a film parents can feel confident to return to again and again with their children.”
“We are ecstatic to bring The Inventor to the big screen by this world-class team,” adds Robert Rippberger. “We look forward to sharing plenty of laughs with those young and old, following the wild adventures of one of the greatest geniuses of our time.”
Inventing flying contraptions, war machines, and studying cadavers, the story of The Inventor follows famed Leonardo da Vinci as he takes on the grand meaning of life itself with the help of the French princess, Marguerite de Nevarre.
