Me and My Shadow

Me and My Shadow is a cancelled/proposed American 3D computer/traditionally animated fantasy film from DreamWorks Animation. It would have been the studio's first film to feature traditional animation since Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas in 2003.

Alessandro Carloni was going to make his full-length feature film directorial debut. It was set to star Josh Gad, Bill Hader, and Kate Hudson in her animation debut. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film was originally scheduled to be released in November 2013, but was pushed back to March 2014. Later, it was announced that Mr. Peabody & Sherman would be released in March 2014 instead, with Me and My Shadow returning to development with no new release date announced.

Plot
Stanley Grubb (Josh Gad), the world's most boring and dull man, has a shadow named Stan (Bill Hader) who wants more excitement but can't have it because he's attached to Stanley. When Stan uncovers a criminal plot in the shadow world that involves an evil shadow who wants to lead a rebellion to take over the human world, he decides to take control of Stanley to give him a glimpse of adventure and to also stop the shadow villain from leading the rebellion. The two of them goes onto an adventure throughout the shadow world to investigate the situation and face the villain before the villain and the shadows set out to the human world to take control of their humans. Stanley has a love interest named Heidi (Kate Hudson).

Voice cast

 * Josh Gad as Stanley Grubb
 * Bill Hader as Shadow Stan
 * Kate Hudson as Heidi, Grubb's love interest

Production
Revealed in December 2010, Mark Dindal (who also developed the film's concept and story) was set to direct the film, with a schedule to be released in March 2013. In March 2011, the film was pushed to November 2013, and in June 2012, to March 14, 2014, replacing another DreamWorks Animation's film, Mr. Peabody & Sherman. In January 2012, it was announced that Josh Gad, Bill Hader and Kate Hudson have joined the cast, and that Alessandro Carloni, a head of story of How to Train Your Dragon, has replaced Dindal.

In February 2013, Me and My Shadow went back into development with Mr. Peabody & Sherman re-assuming its original March 2014 release, leading to many to believe that the film was cancelled. In an interview in late 2013, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg stated that the film was not cancelled but put back on its development tracks and would start up production when they get a new re-write.

Trivia

 * On November 19, 2015, Edgar Wright had signed to direct and co-write an animated feature (known simply as Shadows) for DreamWorks, in which the story was described as a "new take on a previously developed concept about shadows." In an interview with Collider published in June 2017, Wright explained that he and David Walliams had wrote three drafts, but as of 2019, the project is in limbo due to management changes at DreamWorks Animation.
 * Josh Gad, the voice of Stanley Grubb, recorded his first line of dialogue on February 16, 2012 and posted it on his Instagram. He also posted a picture of a page of the script and one of the lines of direction were, "Stanley in Stan's control, waves at Heidi as she advantages closer to him".
 * The soundtrack list has been released on IMDBpro.
 * On one of the animators twitter, it was announced that the film was in negotiations to be released in March 2016 or late 2015 which would switch places with Kung Fu Panda 3.