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FERGAL REILLY (He/Him)

Director
Fergal Reilly is a Los Angeles based director, writer, story and voiceover artist. He began his career as an animator, and story artist working in live action and animation. His credits include The Iron Giant, Spider Man 2, Space Jam, Stuart Little 2, Walt Disney’s The Haunted Mansion, The Longest Yard, The Heffalump Movie, Open Season, The Smurfs Movie 1 and 2, Hotel Transylvania and Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. He was picked by the Irish Technology Leadership Group as one of the most influential Irish Americans influencing the world of entertainment and technology. Fergal directed The Angry Birds Movie in 2016. He also worked as a writing consultant for Fox Animation and was film advisor on the 2024 Academy Award Winner WAR IS OVER. He is slated to direct Pete and Goat, an R-rated, live-action dramedy about two young adults traumatized by their memory of being in the classroom with President George W Bush on the morning of 9/11. He regularly consults on game and toy IP to movie adaptations through his company Pooka Pictures Inc.

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Adapting Games into Animated Series and Films

Civic Auditorium | Maureen Fan | FERGAL REILLY | Patrick Osborne | Clay Kaytis | Jony Chandra | Katherine MacDonald

Recent animated game adaptations have crushed it with fans like Arcane or at the box office with Sonic. Making them is hard though: these games have rabid existing fanbases much larger than comics, the games are still ongoing, some have thin story, and Hollywood + games have had a storied history with many previously failed film adaptations. Hear from the creatives, who adapt these beloved IP into animation, share how they do it well.

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