Joann Sfar’s Autochenille Production has teamed up with Studiocanal to create an animated feature for Petit Vampire.
Based on Sfar’s own comic, the film will follow a 300 year old vampire who has been 10 nearly his whole life and is quite simply bored. So, he decides to attend school where he befriends Michael, an orphan who is thrilled and enchanted by the Petit Vampire’s supernatural world. However, “…the terrifying Gibbus — a supernatural moon-headed creature who has sworn to destroy the living dead’s happy little community — will put many an obstacle in their path.”
Sfar’s comic has had several independent storylines, so this very well could be the beginning of a franchise, although it seems like this is a “one at a time and let’s see how it goes” situation.
Petit Vampire was also a TV series in France.