A horned, goose-riding magical mystery tour-ish Jason Momoa (Aquaman) welcomes a young girl to the world of dreams in Netflix’s Slumberland teaser trailer. The film’s based on Winsor McCay’s classic comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland and introduces a fantastical dream world far different from Netflix’s The Sandman.
In addition to Jason Momoa, Slumberland stars Kyle Chandler, Marlow Barkley, Chris O’Dowd, Weruche Opia, India de Beaufort, and Humberly González. Francis Lawrence, director of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mockingjay, directs from a screenplay by David Guion and Michael Handelman. (Lawrence is also currently busy with The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.)
Producers include Lawrence, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and David Ready.
The teaser trailer was accompanied by new photos from the family-friendly film that’s set to premiere on November 18, 2022.
The Plot: Slumberland takes audiences to a magical new place, a dreamworld where precocious Nemo (Marlow Barkley) and her eccentric companion Flip (Momoa) embark on the adventure of a lifetime. After her father Peter (Chandler) is unexpectedly lost at sea, young Nemo’s idyllic Pacific Northwest existence is completely upended when she is sent to live in the city with her well-meaning but deeply awkward uncle Phillip (O’Dowd).
Her new school and new routine are challenging by day but at night, a secret map to the fantastical world of Slumberland connects Nemo to Flip, a rough-around-the-edges but lovable outlaw who quickly becomes her partner and guide. She and Flip soon find themselves on an incredible journey traversing dreams and fleeing nightmares, where Nemo begins to hope that she will be reunited with her father once again.