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‘Happy Wheels’ Series Trailer Litters the Street With Blood and Guts (Exclusive)
On November 15, Machinima will bring audiences an all-new original animated series based on Jim Bonacci’s hit online video game Happy Wheels. Produced by BMP Digital, the digital division of Bunim/Murray Productions (‘The Real World’, ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’), this nine-episode series expands upon the game that boasts more than 12 million players a month, over three billion “Let’s Play” video views, and more than five million user-generated levels as one of the top free play games in the App store over the two years. In featuring fan-favorites such as Wheelchair Guy, Irresponsible Dad and Lawnmower Man, the series will showcase the game’s notorious dark humor and penchant for blood and gore.
Fans of the game will have their first look at the animated series as Bloody Disgusting has unveiled the poster and official trailer.
Happy Wheels: The series drops November 15, only on https://www.go90.com
Additionally, the voice talent for the digital series was announced. With millions of fans across the social landscape, the cast includes some of the most talented and recognizable voice actors and animators in the industry including:
- Jordan Maron (CaptainSparklez), Stephen (aka Business Guy)
o CaptainSparklez, aka Jordan Maron, is a well-known YouTube personality specializing in Minecraft gameplay and themed music videos. (13.6M social followers)
- Lance Stewart (Lance210), Torso with a Head
- Lance Stewart (Lance210) has quickly risen to become one of the top social media stars in the last year. With his honest and authentic approach to content, his presence exploded to almost 9M followers on Facebook and over 3M on Instagram. This year, Lance started his YouTube channels and his vlog channel is quickly closing in on 2M subscribers, becoming one of the fastest growing channels on the platform. (18.8M social followers)
- Anna Brisbin (Brizzy Voices), Janet (aka The Effective Shopper)
o Anna Brisbin, aka Brizzy Voices, is a popular online personality and voice over actress. Projects include: Machinima’s FYI, Valet, Tenured, and A Snow Globe Christmas. (1.9M social followers)
- Ryan McNulty (xRPMx13), Charles’ Dad
o Ryan McNulty (xRPMx13) is a well-known Minecrafter, playing Minecraft Hunger Games with CaptainSparklez, The BajanCandian and JeromeASF. His fans are good looking gamers and he is known as THE Incredibly Good Looking Gamer. (1.8M social followers)
- Shanna Malcolm (HeyYoShanna), Cop
o Shanna Malcolm is an actress, and the well-known YouTube personality HeyYoShanna. Malcom has appeared in popular television series like Glee and Shameless and delivers hilariously unfiltered commentary on pop culture via her Ghetto Gaming series. (1.2M social followers)
- Tyler Pappas (LogDotZip), Store Manager
o Best known for his YouTube series The Nomad, Crafting with Noobs, and Only One Command, Tyler Papas (LogDotZip) has one of the most popular Minecraftersout there. (1.4M social followers)
- Jerome Aceti (JeromeASF), Teen
o Jerome Aceti (JeromeASF) is one of the most recognizable Minecraft players on YouTube. His disarming nature and goofiness has drawn a core audience of loyal followers, through a mix of collaborative gameplay videos and vlogs that document his real-life adventures. (6.6M social followers)
- Ricky Hayberg (RickyFTW), Fred
o Ricky Hayberg is an actor, writer, producer and co-host of Machinima’s ETC. (925K social followers)
- Eliot Dewberry, Carl
o Eliot Dewberry is an actor, writer and co-host of Machinima’s ETC. (925KM social followers)
- Tay Zonday, The King
o Best known for his “Chocolate Rain’ viral video, Tay Zonday is a People’s Choice Award-Nominated, YouTube Award-Winning, Webby Award-Winning singer-songwriter, actor, voice talent, and brand spokesperson with more than 160 million video views on YouTube. (1.6M social followers)
Happy Wheels will launch to a global audience on numerous platforms including go90 (United States), SkyQ (U.K.), AMC Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and Sohu (China).
Happy Wheels executive producers for BMP Digital are John P. Roberts and Gil Goldschein. Kesila Childers is co-executive producer.
ABOUT HAPPY WHEELS: THE SERIES
Welcome to Happy Wheels, the most dangerous community on Earth. People are mangled everyday by traps, spikes, mines, cars, unsafe roads and hazards. But no one seems to notice. To reduce some of the carnage in town, five concerned citizens form a safety awareness committee but often fail with hilarious results.
ABOUT THE HAPPY WHEELS GAME
Launched during the summer of 2010, Happy Wheels is a side-scrolling, physics-based, obstacle course game with over a billion plays online. Players assume the role of an assortment of inadequately prepared racers and ignore severe consequences in a desperate search for victory.
- Monthly game plays: 12.3 million
- Total game plays: 1.2 billion sessions
- Total game players: 352 million players
Total app downloads: 14 million downloads
Daniel Roebuck has been cast as Santa Claus in Terrifier 3, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report.
Writer-director Damien Leone is currently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated sequel, in which Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
“I’ve been holding this secret for a long time!” Roebuck tells Bloody Disgusting. “I’ve been really excited about it. I’m actually entering into the movies that I watch. It’s extraordinary. This is Terrifier bigger, badder, best.”
Roebuck appears in Terrifier 3 alongside returning cast members David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, and AEW superstar Chris Jericho.
No stranger to iconic horror properties, Roebuck has squared off against Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, played The Count in Zombie’s The Munsters, succumbed to The Tall Man’s sphere in Phantasm: Ravager, and investigated death in Final Destination.
A distinguished character actor with over 250 credits, Roebuck has also appeared in The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End, The Fugitive, Lost, Agent Cody Banks, and The Man in the High Castle. Incidentally, he’s also playing Santa in the family drama Saint Nick of Bethlehem, due out later this year.
Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters nationwide later this year via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting in conjunction with our partner on Terrifier 2, Iconic Events Releasing.
Terrifier 3 comes courtesy of Dark Age Cinema Productions. Phil Falcone Produces with Lisa Falcone acting as Executive Producer. Co-producers include Mike Leavy, Jason Leavy, George Steuber, and Steve Della Salla. Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, and Erick Opeka Executive Produce for Cineverse. Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor also Executive Produce.
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