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Carlos López Estrada Developing ‘The Good Whale’ Podcast For Film & Documentary


Carlos López Estrada is developing 'The Good Whale' podcast about Keiko the orca into a feature film and documentary

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Carlos López Estrada( Raya and the Last Dragon,Blindspotting) and his company Antigravity Academy are developing a feature film and an in-depth documentary project based on The Good Whale, a new podcast from The New York Times and Serial Productions. López Estrada— whose third directorial project, Raya and the Last Dragon received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature— introduced the podcast concept to the New York Times and Serial three years ago, deriving from his longtime fascination with the famous orca he idolized as a child in Mexico City. It features an original song by Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriters Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and puppets by Michelle Zamora.

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