Netflix’s Adam Sandler Animated Comedy ‘Leo’ Gets First Teaser

Netflix has released a teaser for its upcoming animated Adam Sandler film Leo.

The streamer has enjoyed a lot of success with its recent animated features such as The Monkey King, Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie, and Nimona, all of which debuted on the streamer’s global Top 10 list in their first weeks. At first glance, though, none of those have the wide appeal that Leo is likely to bring when it hits the platform on November 21.

Film details:

• Leo reunites frequent Sandler collaborators and Saturday Night Live writers Robert Smigel, Robert Marianetti, and David Wachtenheim, who are co-directing the film. Smigel was a co-writer on Hotel Transylvania and Hotel Transylvania 2, with Marianetti and Wachtenheim as heads of story on the latter. All three worked on Saturday Night Live’s popular animated Saturday TV Funhouse shorts in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
• Animation for Leo is being handled by Netflix Animation and Australia’s Animal Logic (The Lego Movie, DC League of Super-Pets), which was acquired by Netflix last year.
• Netflix’s synopsis described the film as a “coming-of-age animated musical comedy about the last year of elementary school – as seen through the eyes of a class pet. Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher. It ends up being the strangest but most rewarding bucket list ever…”
• Voice casting includes Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Heidi Gardner, Nick Swardson, Nicholas Turturro, Robert Smigel, Jo Koy, and Stephanie Hsu.