Director Mike Mitchell And Writer Erica Rivinoja Bring DreamWorks’ TROLLS To The Big Screen

Comedy director Mike Mitchell and Emmy Award winning writer Erica Rivinoja are tackling something notoriously small for their next big screen project – the iconic troll dolls (which stand at about two inches tall). DreamWorks Animation, which recently announced the acquisition of the Trolls franchise, has given Mitchell and Rivinoja the task of reimagining the Trolls universe on the big screen.

Mitchell, currently directing the live action sequences in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie 2 and has worked on Shrek Forever After, Sky High and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked.

Rivinoja has worked on comedies South Park and Up All Night.

Under the direction of this new creative team TROLLS will be distributed by Twentieth Century Fox on November 4, 2016.

The film, which will be a grand scale musical comedy centering around how the Trolls came into their vibrant and colorful hair, will be produced by Gina Shay (Shrek Forever After).

The Troll doll phenomenon was born in 1959 when Danish fisherman and woodcutter Thomas Dam, too poor to afford a Christmas present for his young daughter Lajla, carved a doll for her based on the legendary Scandinavian troll. This modern-day Geppetto couldn’t have imagined that the Troll dolls would soon become one of the biggest toy crazes of the 1960s.

The Trolls experienced a resurgence in the 1990s and their uniquely endearing faces and shocks of colorful hair continue to capture the hearts and imaginations of fans around the world.