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Kevin Costner Funding Explorers Club Animated Webseries

Kevin Costner is getting into animation, reports VARIETY. He will produce, fund and voice the animated webseries, THE EXPLORERS CLUB. The 12x4 series will be written and directed by creator Black Lamp Prods.,' Chris Baird, Jon Baird and Keith Quinn. Chiodo Bros. Prods. will produce the animation.

Costner hopes to build buzz on the Internet for the property than transform it into a live-action feature for him to star in and possibly direct. A feature script is in the works and will be finished before the webseries launches.

The gothic series centers on a group of Victorian-era adventurers who journey to the furthest reaches of the Earth.

Robin Jonas, Costner's partner in Treehouse Films, will also produce.

"Each episode is clever and visual, it works as a series, and it has massive potential for the bigscreen," Costner was quoted as saying. "Distribution channels have grown, and as a filmmaker, I was excited by the opportunities to draw an audience into a story in a new way."

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