Nickelodeon to Premiere Brand-New SpongeBob SquarePants Halloween Stop-Motion Animation Special: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom
June 20 2017 - 1:10PM
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Nickelodeon will take viewers on a spooky Halloween adventure
throughout Bikini Bottom with the brand-new, stop-motion special,
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom. In the visual
style of classic stop-motion animation TV specials, The Legend of
Boo-Kini Bottom tells the story of the Flying Dutchman (Brian Doyle
Murray) who wants to make sure everyone in town is scared,
especially SpongeBob, who thinks scary things are funny. The
special will premiere in October 2017 on Nickelodeon.
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(L-R) SpongeBob and Patrick in
Nickelodeon's Halloween Stop-Motion Special, "SpongeBob
SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom." (Photo: Business
Wire)
Bikini Bottom is decked out for Halloween and features Sandy’s
treedome as a mad scientist’s lab, including a giant remotely
operated Acorn Monster; Mr. Krabs’ restaurant as “The Horrors of
the Chum Bucket,” displaying scenes of Plankton torturing food; and
Plankton’s restaurant as “The Horrors of the Krusty Krab,” telling
the story of Mr. Krabs turning customers into Krabby Patties and
more.
The characters don Halloween costumes, with SpongeBob as a
flower, Patrick as a knight, Sandy as a mad scientist, Mr. Krabs as
a dollar bill, Plankton as a devil, Squidward as himself, and Karen
as a cat. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom
features an original song, "The Scare Song," written by Mr.
Lawrence, music by Eban Schletter and performed by the Flying
Dutchman’s crew of pirate ghosts.
The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom is being produced at Screen
Novelties, a Los Angeles-based stop-motion animation production
company, where miniature puppets and sets bring Bikini Bottom to
life in three dimensions. The production features 27 unique sets,
across five stages, where 15 boxes of breakfast cereal were used to
create texture on Bikini Bottom's coral reefs; eight pounds of
glitter were used to decorate SpongeBob’s Halloween pineapple
house; hundreds of popsicle sticks created the planks of the
rollercoaster track that Patrick and SpongeBob ride; and “black
lights” were used to create a fluorescent glow across the puppets
and sets.
Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller are the supervising producers
on SpongeBob SquarePants. The special was written by Mr. Lawrence,
with Brian Morante serving as the storyboard director. The special
is being directed by Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh, and produced
by Chris Finnegan of Screen Novelties.
This is the second time Nickelodeon has partnered with Screen
Novelties on a SpongeBob SquarePants stop-motion episode. SpongeBob
SquarePants: It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! debuted December 2012 and
featured Plankton turning everybody in Bikini Bottom from nice to
naughty.
Viewers can visit the SpongeBob SquarePants page
on Nick.com, the Nick App and the Facebook page, along with
the SpongeBob Facebook page and SpongeBob Instagram, to get an
exclusive look at the series. Episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants are
available on Nick.com and the Nick App, along with platforms
including iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, Vudu and Nick On
Demand.
SpongeBob SquarePants is voiced by Tom Kenny as SpongeBob
SquarePants, an incurably optimistic sea sponge who lives in a
pineapple under the sea; Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star,
SpongeBob's silly best friend; Roger Bumpass as Squidward, an aloof
cashier of The Krusty Krab and SpongeBob’s neighbor; Clancy Brown
as Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob's boss and greedy owner of The Krusty Krab;
Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, Bikini Bottom's only resident
rodent aquanaut and scientist; and Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, owner
of the Chum Bucket and chief rival of Mr. Krabs.
SpongeBob SquarePants is executive produced by creator Stephen
Hillenburg, who previously worked as a writer, director and
creative director on Nickelodeon’s animated series Rocko’s Modern
Life. Hillenburg graduated from the California Institute of the
Arts with a master’s degree in experimental animation and studied
marine biology and art as an undergraduate. Hillenburg created and
executive produced his first feature film, The SpongeBob
SquarePants Movie, which debuted Nov. 19, 2004 and his second
theatrical, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, hit theaters
Feb. 6, 2015. The series is produced at Nickelodeon in Burbank.
About SpongeBob
SquarePants
Since its launch in July 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has emerged
as a pop culture phenomenon. The series has been the most-watched
animated program with kids 2-11 for more than 15 consecutive years,
and over the past several years, it has averaged more than
100,000,000 total viewers every quarter across all Nickelodeon
networks. SpongeBob SquarePants is the most widely distributed
property in Viacom International Media Networks history, seen in
more than 208 countries and territories and translated in 55+
languages. The Paramount Pictures feature film The SpongeBob Movie:
Sponge Out of Water premiered Feb. 6, 2015, landing at #1 opening
weekend. The character-driven cartoon chronicles the nautical and
sometimes nonsensical adventures of SpongeBob, an incurably
optimist and earnest sea sponge, and his undersea friends.
About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 38th year, is the number-one
entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global
business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company
includes television programming and production in the United States
and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, recreation,
books and feature films. Nickelodeon’s U.S. television network is
seen in more than 90 million households and has been the
number-one-rated kids’ basic cable network for 22 consecutive
years. For more information or artwork, visit
http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles,
characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA,
VIAB).
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