Oscar-Winning VFX Supervisor Rob Legato Joins The Crew Of Michael Bay’s ‘Skibidi Toilet’ Project
Three-time Academy Award-winning vfx supervisor Rob Legato (Titanic, The Lion King Avatar, Hugo, The Jungle Book) has joined the production of Skibidi Toilet (working title), based on the hit online animated series created by Alexey Gerasimov, a 27-year-old filmmaker and animator who lives in the country of Georgia.
Michael Bay (The Rock, Armageddon, Bad Boys, the Transformers franchise) is directing the project. The project, which is not explicitly called a film, is being produced, developed, and financed by Invisible Narratives, the company founded by the former head of Paramount Pictures, Adam Goodman, and of which Bay is chief creative advisor.
The company announced today that production has started on the Skibidi Toilet project, which it describes as an “early creative take on the franchise.” The series, which is difficult to describe, follows a series of singing toilets with human heads (called Skibidi Toilets) who are at war with Cameramen, Speakermen, and TV-men.
Little is known about what is being made, and what techniques it will use, though with Legato on board, it will likely feature extensive visual effects and animation. The only other talent currently named to the project is production designer Jeffrey Beecroft (12 Monkeys, Transformers, A Quiet Place).
The Gen Alpha-targeted project is based on the DaFuq!?Boom! Youtube channel, which has over 45 million subscribers and nearly 19 billion views of its content. According to Invisible Ventures, when combined with the Skibidi Creator Alliance network of channels, the platform has a collective 110 million subscribers and 35 billion views.
