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The Pebble and the Penguin is upcoming 2019 film Family Comedy film remake to 1995 film same name by Don Bluth. The Film Produced by Metro Golden Mayer and Imagemovers and Sullivan Bluth Studios.
The Film Well Be Directed By Tim Burton
Plot[]
In Antarctica, the Adelie Penguins practice a tradition where during the mating season, the male birds gather on the beaches to find a pebble to use as a mating ritual, and during the night of the full moon mating ceremony, the males propose to the female they love by presenting their pebble to them, and if they accept it, they become a married couple.
Hubie, a shy and good-hearted male penguin, loves Marina, the most beautiful penguin in the rookery who also seems to like him, but his evil rival Drake, a muscular penguin who is said to always get his way, similarly covers Marina's affection. One night, Hubie and Marina discuss their feelings for each other, but Hubie is unable to find a suitable pebble to propose to Marina with due to both his clumsiness and the other penguins desperately trying to find pebbles, too. He wishes on a star to make his dream come true and he receives a beautiful emerald cube from the sky. Hubie ecstatically rushes to find Marina but Drake thwarts him and taunts him, telling him nobody will marry somebody like him. When Drake demands Hubie to give him the emerald, Hubie refuses and Drake throws him into the water. Hubie narrowly escapes from a leopard seal and climbs onto a piece of an iceberg where he is swept away from Antarctica.
Hubie, after sleeping for three days, is picked up by humans and caged on their ship called "Misery", which transports penguins to a zoo, and meets a tough, grumpy, streetwise and somewhat arrogant but good-hearted rockhopper penguin named Rocko. After seeing a vision where Drake tries to hound Marina into marrying him and tells her that she'll be banished if she doesn't find a mate before the mating ceremony, Hubie decides to escape with Rocko and flees, before laying low on a beach. Rocko reluctantly tells Hubie about his desire to fly and live in a tropical climate. He convinces him to help him return to Antarctica by making up a lie about a flying penguin named Waldo. They have a short fight after Rocko tries to fly off to "an authentic, ancient aviarial airstrip" and another after Rocko saves Hubie from a killer whale. The two attempt to depart, but Hubie admits to Rocko that he lied to him about Waldo, which infuriates Rocko to the point he attempts to attack Hubie, but soon starts laughing when Hubie does an impression of a wheezing noise, and praises Hubie's determination to return to Marina. Hubie and Rocko run into the hungry and persistent leopard seal but are able to escape it. With that, they become true friends, and Rocko later teaches Hubie how to fight for Marina when the time will come. However, their joy is short-lived as three killer whales attack them, causing Hubie's pebble to get lost in the scuffle and Rocko to go missing, leaving Hubie to think he perished. Disheartened, Hubie eventually finds Drake's lair, and finds out that Drake had kidnapped Marina to force her to be his mate. Drake and Hubie charge at each other, but the former ends up knocking Hubie out and, thinking he won, tries carrying Marina off to the depths of his lair. Hubie, however, resuscitates and, remembering what Rocko taught him, fights Drake by doing martial arts and initially defeats him by drop-kicking him off the stairway and almost into a killer whale's jaws [possibly the same whale that almost ate Hubie].
Hubie becomes overjoyed when Marina accepts his marriage proposal, and even more when Rocko reveals himself to be alive. Suddenly, while reuniting, Hubie and Rocko hear Marina scream in agony as Drake lifts the stair she was standing on and, in a final move, he throws it at Hubie, however, the two penguins both dodge the large stone just in time. The impact considerably damages Drake's tower with several slabs falling from the overhang, then the killer whale comes up and eats him instead as his hench-penguins flee from the killer whales who pursue them. Rocko, however, rescues Hubie and Marina as the tower collapses while somehow becoming able to fly. When they arrive at the ceremony, Rocko gives Hubie his pebble and he presents it to Marina, and she tells him that she loves his pebble, but loves him even more and the two become mates. Rocko decides to stay in Antarctica with the film closing on some penguin watchers protecting the penguins who saved the penguins from the good ship Misery and Rocko becomes guardian of the penguin world and then, we see him teaching Hubie and Marina's offspring how to fly. Then, we see a Skua checking out one of Drake's dead feathers and picks one up in its bill and flies off with a squawk. Later on, we see Sierra [a new enemy penguin] lurking nearby, setting up for the sequel.
Cast and characters[]
Cast
- James Corden as Hubie
- Brad Garrett as Drake
- Robert De Niro as Rocko
- Tim Curry or Mark Hamill as Big Killer Whale
- Anna Faris as Marina
- Amy Sedaris as Priscilla
- Jeff Bennett as Royal/Tika
- Martin Short as narrator