Legend of MYCUN

Legend of MYCUN (commonly known as MYCUN: The Movie 2) is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy crossover film and a sequel to the 2015 film MYCUN: The Movie, which is based on the YouTube channel MinionsYesCarrieUnderwoodNo. The film is being directed by Taylor Grodin and Mike Moon, and produced by Gabriel Garcia at MYCUN Studios and CGI Entertainment. The screenplay is written by Jon Vitti, Josh Klausner, Darren Lemke, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Newcomers include Bernard from the animated series of the same name, the characters from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Hiro Hamada from Disney's Big Hero 6, and the reboot series of the Planet of the Apes series.

Unlike its predecessor which was flash animated, this film is fully animated and rendered in computer-generated imagery (CGI), which is handled by CGI Entertainment, a computer-animation company founded by Gabriel Garcia, the director of the first film and the producer of the sequel. Grodin replies, "While the first film is already hand-drawn/flash animated, the next one will be CGI animated where have the characters animated in CGI. There's some reasons why the second one will be CGI because we want to see the characters in CGI, and it's way better than hand-drawn animation, and that's why CGI is pretty awesome."

Legend of MYCUN is scheduled to be released on February 2, 2018, by 20th Century Fox in the US and Universal Pictures internationally.

Plot
The sequel will focus on Gabriel Garcia, now 18 years old, becoming a king and the leader of his favorite characters/fans and other characters, and Red Puckett's husband (who becomes Gabriel's girlfriend from the first film) in his own village known as "MYCUN Village", located near at his own city known as "MYCUN City" with his newcomers, Bernard Bear, Victor Van Dort, Victoria Everglot, Emily the Corpse Bride, Hiro Hamada, Caesar, Blue Eyes, Maurice, Rocket, Luca, and other apes, and makes his home to be "epic awesomeness and MYCUN-ish" until they have to defeat Koba and his evil group of apes with guns, Evil Minions, Caillou (from the first film) and his clones, and bad YouTube preschool/baby channel characters, such as Mother Goose Club, Hoopla Kidz, Busy Beavers, LittleBabyBum, ChuChu TV Kids, CVS 3D Rhymes, and others, who are trying to destroy Gabriel and take over Gabriel's new city, and his imaginary world as well.

Cast

 * Elijah Wood as Gabriel Garcia, an 18-year-old brave man and the leader of the MYCUN residents.

Production
On April 18, 2015, Garcia confirmed that they are also developing a sequel to MYCUN: The Movie, with Shrek Forever After writers Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke writing the script for the sequel.

In June 2015, it was reported that executive producer Taylor Grodin will direct the sequel with Garcia as a producer and Jon Vitti, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver joining the sequel to co-write with Klausner and Lemke, which marks the first animated feature debut of Jaffa and Silver. It was also confirmed that Zachary Gordon will not return to voice Gabriel Garcia in the sequel, as his voice has deepened with age. Universal and Fox had switched the distribution rights, in which Fox will handle the domestic rights while Universal would handle the international rights for the sequel.

On July 2, 2015, Garcia had created a computer-animation studio, called CGI Entertainment, which will provide the animation for the sequel. On July 9, Fox officially confirmed that Elijah Wood will star as the voice of Gabriel and that Mike Moon, one of the developers of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, will co-direct the sequel with Grodin. It was also confirmed that Hiro Hamada from Disney's Big Hero 6 will appear as a supporting role in the sequel.

On July 17, Fox and Universal revealed that the sequel will be titled Legend of MYCUN.

Release
MYCUN: The Movie 2 was originally set for release on March 9, 2018, but was changed to November 15, 2018 to avoid competition with Disney's Giants.

On July 11, 2015, the film's release date was later pushed back to February 2, 2018.

Trivia

 * There is a reason why the sequel will be animated in CGI instead of being traditionally animated. In some cases, it's because all ape characters from Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes were all performed in motion-capture technology and animated in CGI.
 * Koba would have a major role as the main antagonist of the sequel.
 * Although Koba was killed in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, he is alive in this film, along with Stone.
 * This will mark the second time that the characters from Corpse Bride and the Planet of the Apes reboot series appeared together in a movie produced by Gabriel Garcia, after Geoshea Theft Auto 3 (2016).
 * In this film, the models of Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot were used for Corpse Bride, while the models of Caesar, Koba, Maurice, Rocket, Luca, Grey, Stone and other apes were also used for Rise of the Planet of the Apes and its sequel, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
 * This film has more Nursery Rhymes YouTube channels characters than the first film.