The 1990s SEGA video game titled, ToeJam & Earl is being worked on as a feature film at Amazon Studios and also comes from Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media and Story Kitchen. ToeJam & Earl was created by Mark Voorsanger and Greg Johnson and is centered on two space alien rappers who come to earth seeking a cure for the disease eradicating their home planet’s rhythm, funk and groove.
The synopsis for the project reads, “Earth, their legends tell them, is the Paradise where the music that created their culture originated. Unfortunately for our heroes, not only do they wreck their ship, but they find that Earth is . . . well, not the haven they expected. But the music – that part was true. So begins their quest to find as much of that music as they can in the hope of saving their planet, and maybe ours as well.”
ToeJam & Earl became a hit video game when released in 1991 and had a soundtrack that pulls from jazz, funk, and hip-hop. It also was followed by two sequels ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron and ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth. Amos Vernon and Nunzio Randazzo, the writers behind Hotel Transylvania 4 and the upcoming Disney + Superfudge series, will write the screenplay.
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