There’s something new in the Ice Age franchise! After the movie The Adventures of Buck Wild, Disney+ will soon release a series of short films about Scrat, one of the favorite characters of fans.
After six years of absence, the Ice Age franchise is making a strong comeback on Disney+ with a film and a series. The first, titled The Adventures of Buck Wild and out now, tells how opossum brothers Crash and Eddie finds themselves embarked on a wild mission with the famous dinosaur hunter in the Underworld as they seek emancipation from their family. with Ellie, Manny, Diego, and Sid.
In this list, one name is missing and it is this missing link that is entitled to its own series on the platform: Scrat! To discover on April 13, Ice Age: The Adventures of Scrat is a series of six animated short films which is therefore centered on the famous saber-toothed squirrel. Having become a father, our unlucky hero takes care of his son, the adorable Baby Scrat. The latter is as naughty as his father and also obsessed with the precious Gland for which he devotes an unfailing adoration and which will cause him many problems.
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It should be noted that Scrat is not present in Ice Age: The Adventures of Buck Wild and that the character was at the heart of important litigation. Cartoonist Ivy Supersonic, real name Ivy Silberstein, claims the famous squirrel created by Chris Wedge, who lends her voice, and Michael J. Wilson, and designed by artist Peter DeSeve, washers.
According to her, she created the character Squat in 1999 after seeing a squirrel-rat hybrid in Skidmore University’s Case Green and introduced him to executives at 20th Century Fox and Blue sky Studios before the franchise The Ice Age does not enter development. She was offered a deal by Fox studios, which she refused, and the case, relayed in a CNN report, continued in appeal trial.
In 2003, a judge ruled that Ivy Supersonic and Blue Sky Studios had equal rights to the Scrat character. Disney, which inherited Blue Sky and the franchise when it bought out Fox, reached an agreement with her in 2019. Despite the many tweets she posts on her account, Disney, therefore, holds the character of Scrat well. and can use it for new films and new series, such as The Adventures of Scrat, the first images of which have been unveiled and which will be on Disney+ on April 13.
