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Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie/production

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This is a production article for the SpongeBob SquarePants film, Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie, which aired on Netflix August 2, 2024[1][2].

Production

During the development of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, a "Sandy"-centered storyline was pitched by Marc Ceccarelli during a round table. The pitch initially got rejected until a few years later where the storyline was reused and developed further for a Sandy Cheeks spin-off film.[3]

On March 4, 2020, Robert Bakish announced that Paramount Global would produce two feature-length SpongeBob SquarePants spin-off movies for Netflix, representing a "profitable, low-risk rental business with set margins," which he said translates to content ownership for separate distribution down the road, including consumer products and recreation.[4]

"So, we're convinced that both an O&O [owned and operated] and a third-party studio strategy is absolutely right for ViacomCBS," Bakish said. "We believe that maximizing the value of our content asset, that is what you see us executing in 2020 and beyond."

When asked about any updates on the movies, Vincent Waller answered that they are in the writing stage as of January 23, 2021.[5]

On May 20, 2021, it was announced that a hybrid movie featuring Sandy Cheeks was in development. Production was slated to start in August in New Mexico.[6]

The metadata for the concept art on Olga Stern's website, including the interior of the Cheeks family van and the sewer scene, is dated between June and September 2021.[7]

On August 12, 2021, the title of the movie was revealed as SpongeBob SquarePants: Saving Bikini Bottom.[8]

On August 16, 2021, it was revealed that plans to film Saving Bikini Bottom in Los Alamos were scrapped due to rewrites of the script.[9][10]

On August 26, 2021, Vincent Waller confirmed that the movie will be CG animated with live-action segments.[11]

Christian Adkins, a camera operator on the movie, lists SpongeBob SquarePants Movie:[sic] Saving Bikini Bottom as a 2021 Warner Bros. feature.[12]

On October 24, 2021, Vincent Waller confirmed that Warner Bros. Pictures is not involved in the movie and that Netflix is still the distributor.[13][14]

On February 15, 2022, the movie got an announced release date of 2023.[15][16]

On October 17, 2022, Jay Lender revealed that he was doing storyboards on this movie.[17][18][19]

On October 27, 2022, Vincent Waller confirmed that the initial logo revealed for the movie could be subject to change.[20]

On April 25, 2023, a first look to Saving Bikini Bottom was revealed by Netflix, which turned out to be a frame from the movie. On the same day, it was also announced that the movie's release date got delayed to 2024.[21][1][22]

On April 26, 2023, Spencer Wyatt confirmed that the movie is being animated by Sinking Ship Entertainment, it's also gonna be animated by Pipeline Studios.[23][24]

In late November 2023, multiple characters models and fully rendered clips were leaked due to a networking mistake that happened in 2023 where Pipeline Studios had their entire file server open to the public for a period of time.

On December 29, 2023, it was announced on Twitter that the movie would be releasing "soon."[25]

On January 20, 2024, the movie was leaked via now taken down Google Drive link on Discord.

On January 21, 2024, the entire movie was leaked online on Twitter before it was taken down by Paramount Global five hours later.[26]

On February 12, 2024, it was announced that the movie would be releasing in April 2024.[27]

On March 18, 2024, the movie's release date was postponed to summer of 2024.

On May 1, 2024, it was announced that the movie will be released on August 2, 2024.[2]

Production images

Promotional images

Test animations

Storyboards

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Concept art

Bikini Bottom

Cheeks family van

Sewer of B.O.O.T.S

Characters

Sea Pals

Models

Live-action

Behind the scenes

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/saving-bikini-bottom-the-sandy-cheeks-movie-to-release-on-netflix-in-august-2024/
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/saving-bikini-bottom-the-sandy-cheeks-movie-to-release-on-netflix-in-august-2024/
  3. ↑ https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/07/the-team-behind-saving-bikini-bottom-the-sandy-cheeks-movie-tell-us-all-about-the-texan-squirrels-starring-turn/
  4. ↑ https://www.mediaplaynews.com/its-a-spongebob-squarepants-vision-at-viacomcbs/
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210123162744/https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1353016365523714049
  6. ↑ https://collider.com/spongebob-sandy-cheeks-movie-liza-johnson/
  7. ↑ https://www.olgasternart.com/saving-bikini-bottom-nickelodeon-feature/
  8. ↑ https://www.productionweekly.com/production-weekly-issue-1259-thursday-august-12-2021-148-listings-33-pages/
  9. ↑ https://ladailypost.com/los-alamos-film-shoot-cut-from-spongebob-movie/
  10. ↑ https://losalamosreporter.com/2021/08/16/plans-to-film-scene-from-new-spongebob-movie-in-los-alamos-scrapped/
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210826134643/https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1430886671562678272
  12. ↑ https://www.christianadkins.com/bio
  13. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20211024194744/https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1452356048321277956
  14. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20211024200621/https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1452362358806831104
  15. ↑ https://collider.com/new-spongebob-squarepants-movie-spinoffs-paramount/
  16. ↑ http://www.nickalive.net/2022/10/sandy-cheeks-spongebob-movie-to-debut.html
  17. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaylender
  18. ↑ https://twitter.com/JayLender1/status/1582031273211543552
  19. ↑ https://twitter.com/JayLender1/status/1651039550586908672
  20. ↑ https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1585740194719801344
  21. ↑ https://twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/status/1650847255639863298
  22. ↑ https://deadline.com/2023/04/saving-bikini-bottom-the-sandy-cheeks-movie-more-unveiled-by-netflix-1235336789/
  23. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tekunji
  24. ↑ https://twitter.com/SpennyEcks/status/1651225641214263297
  25. ↑ https://twitter.com/HollywoodHandle/status/1740818612456230969
  26. ↑ https://www.comingsoon.net/guides/news/1499120-spongebob-squarepants-saving-bikini-bottom-has-the-new-sandy-cheeks-movie-leaked
  27. ↑ https://kidscreen.com/2024/02/13/feature-sinking-ship-cruises-into-its-first-graphic-novel-adaptation
  28. ↑ Eliza Herndon on X: "Saving Bikini Bottom releases today!! I'm so thankful for the..."
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 [1]
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 [2]
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 [3]
  32. ↑ https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JrDP3z
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