The Moomins are a family of round white trolls who first appeared in a novel by their creator Tove Jansson in Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen (1945, aka The Moomins and the Great Flood), and went on to enjoy decades of popularity in Sweden in the form of comic books and animated movies.
After a run of Moomin novels, the characters appeared in comic-book form in 1952 with Hur gick det sen? (The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My), which got an English translation. A series of Moomin comic strips were also translated into English in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the characters also featured in their own opera.
Swedes Stellan Skarsgård and his son Alexander are to provide voices, along with fellow countryman Peter Stormare, for the animated 3D movie Moomins and the Comet Chase.
Skarsgård talks about working with his sons:
"it’s a fantastic feeling when you work with them, which I’ve done a couple of times, and you meet them and you realise how…when you talk about a scene, the distance is shorter, because in some ways even if you never talked about work at home, you realise that you think the same way about the material usually."
Moomins and the Comet Chase will we the first Nordic 3D movie and is variously reported with a release date of autumn 2010 and 2011. In the movie, our heroes must face a comet that is threatening to destroy their village.
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