PJ Pereira, co-founder of agency Pereira & O’Dell, — whose work includes some recent, solid work for Skype, the purported “first social media film” and this classic stop motion Lego ad — has published the first book, The Book of Silence, in a trilogy entitled Gods of Both Worlds.
The Book of Silence will be available in stores November 25th, and Pereira & O’Dell teamed up with Laundry! Design & Animation to create a book trailer. (In case you weren’t aware, book trailers are now practically mandatory.) The trailer features an original track by Brazilian singer Otto, with percussionist Pupillo, and guitarist Andreas Kisser (of Sepultra); as well as narration by the legendary Gilberto Gil. The Book of Silence centers around the prophet Orunmila, who finds his divination tools have suddenly gone silent, and a young journalist in Sao Paulo. In the book “mythical kings, queens and warriors like Ogum, Shango, Oshosi and Iansan work alongside modern day mortals to rescue the 16 princes of fate in a surprising and original narrative of West African gods and goddesses worshiped in some regions of Brazil today.”
If you watched the trailer for The Book of Silence and thought, “Wow that looks like it could be a movie,” you’re not alone. A movie deal has already been negotiated “with The Alchemists’s Mauricio Motta, who bought the rights and the franchise in Brazil and the U.S.” It will be produced by Disruption Entertainment, the company behind Pacific Rim and The Bourne Trilogy.
Pereira will embark on a Brazilian book tour starting in Sao Paolo on November 25th, with dates in Brasilia and Rio on the 27th and 28th. Credits after the jump.CREDITS:
Pereira & O’Dell
Author: PJ Pereira
Art Director: Moses Kelany
Executive Producer: Jeff Ferro
Laundry! Design & Animation
Creative Directors: Anthony Liu & PJ Richardson
Live Action Director: Anthony Liu
Executive Producer: Michael Bennett
Producer: Kirsten Noll
Animation: Tom Bittikoffer, Will Salas
Character Animation: Cactus Dan
Compositing: June Ahn, Yongmin Park
3D Modeling: Yang Liu
Editor: Justin Freedman